Chapter I: ALSO, when I came to you, brethren, came not with excellency of

speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. (2)For I determined not to know anything 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 were not with persuasive words of man's wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit and of power; (5)that your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

(6)But we speak wisdom among those who are perfect; but a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to naught. (7)But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the worlds unto our glory; (8)which no one of the rulers of this world has known; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; (9)but (as it is written) things which eye saw not, nor ear heard, and which entered not into the heart of man, which God prepared for those who love him; (10)but to us God revealed them by his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. (11)For who among men knows the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? So also the things of God no one knows, but the Spirit of God. (12)And we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. (13)Which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit; comparing spiritual things with spiritual[2:13].

(14)But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he can not know them, because they are spiritually judged. (15)But he that is spiritual judges all things; but he himself is judged by no one. (16)For who knew the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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