1And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of 1speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the 2testimony of God. 2For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4And my 3speech and my 4preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5that your faith should not 5stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this 6world, nor of the rulers of this 7world, who are coming to nought: 7but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the 8worlds unto our glory: 8which none of the rulers of this 9world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory: 9but as it is written,
1011But unto us God revealed 12them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God. 12But we received, not the spirit of the 13world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; 14combining spiritual things with spiritual words. 14Now the 15natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually 16judged. 15But he that is spiritual 17judgeth all things, and he himself is 18judged of no man. 16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.