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1 When
I came to
you, brothers, I didn’t
come with excellence
of speech or
of wisdom,
proclaiming to you
the testimony of
God.
2 For
I determined not
to know anything
among you except
Jesus Christ and
him crucified.
3 I
was with you
in weakness, in
fear, and in
much trembling.
4 My
speech and my
preaching were not
in persuasive
words of human
wisdom, but
in demonstration of
the Spirit and
of power,
5 that
your faith wouldn’t
stand in the
wisdom of men,
but in the
power of God.
6 We
speak wisdom,
however, among
those who are
full grown, yet a
wisdom not of
this world nor of
the rulers of
this world who
are coming to
nothing.
7 But
we speak God’s
wisdom in a
mystery, the
wisdom that
has been hidden, which
God foreordained before
the worlds for our
glory,
8 which
none of the rulers
of this world has
known. For had
they known it,
they wouldn’t have
crucified the Lord
of glory.
9 But
as it is
written,
“Things which an
eye didn’t see,
and an ear didn’t
hear,
which didn’t
enter into the
heart of man,
these God has
prepared for those
who love him.”
10 But
to us, God revealed
them through the
Spirit. For the
Spirit searches
all things, yes,
the deep things of
God.
11 For
who among men
knows the things
of a man
except the spirit
of the man
which is in
him? Even so,
no one knows
the things of
God except God’s
Spirit.
12 But
we received not
the spirit of
the world, but
the Spirit which
is from God,
that we might
know the things
that were freely
given to us
by God.
13 We
also speak these
things, not in
words which man’s
wisdom teaches but
which the Holy
Spirit teaches, comparing
spiritual things
with spiritual
things.
14 Now
the natural
man doesn’t
receive the things
of God’s Spirit,
for they are
foolishness to him;
and he can’t
know them, because
they are
spiritually discerned.
15 But
he who is
spiritual discerns all
things, and
he himself is to
be judged by no
one.
16 “For
who has known
the mind of
the Lord that
he should instruct
him?”
But we have
Christ’s mind.