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 to 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 Which
things also we speak, 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 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.
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