Quotes About Wisdom

Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.

But if you do marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

So then, he who marries the virgin does well, but he who does not marry her does even better.

In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

Do I say this from a human perspective? Doesnít the Law say the same thing?

For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.

I speak to reasonable people; judge for yourselves what I say.

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.

Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.

To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,

to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.

But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.