1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2 For I
determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and HIM
crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much
trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words
of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That
your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of
God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the
wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to
nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none
of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not
have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love HIM. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by HIS
Spirit:
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the
Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all
things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the
mind of the Lord, that he may instruct HIM?
But we have the mind of
Christ.
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