1And I, brethren, when I came to you, came
not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring unto you the testimony of God.
2For I determined not to know any thing among
you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear,
and in much trembling.
4And my speech and my preaching was not
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5That your faith should not stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6Howbeit 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:
7But we speak the wisdom of God in a
mystery, even the
hidden wisdom,
which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8Which none of the princes of this world
knew: for had they known it,
they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9But 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.
10But God hath revealed them unto
us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all
things, yea, the deep things of God.
11For 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.
12Now 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.
13Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the
Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with
spiritual.
14But 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.
15But he that is spiritual judgeth all
things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of
Christ.
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