Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body – though many – are one body, so too is Christ.

it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

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.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel – and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless. ¹ 

For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.

But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, ¹  are the things God has prepared for those who love him.” ² 

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.