"If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness."

"A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet."

"And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain."

"For the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none."

"For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?"