For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”

those who use the world as though they were not using it to the full. For the present shape of this world is passing away.

And I want you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.

In the same way the Lord commanded those who proclaim the gospel to receive their living by the gospel.

Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; then when Christ comes, those who belong to him.

And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another.

Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly.

And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

For if there was glory in the ministry that produced condemnation, how much more does the ministry that produces righteousness excel in glory!

Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”

But thanks be to God who put in the heart of Titus the same devotion I have for you,

And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his work in spreading the gospel.

For it is not necessary for me to write you about this service to the saints,

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.