| 1 | And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming 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 in persuasive words of 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 | We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought: |
| 7 | but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory: |
| 8 | which none of the rulers of this world hath 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, and ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him. |
| 10 | But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. |
| 11 | For 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. |
| 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 of God. |
| 13 | Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words]. |
| 14 | Now the natural 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 judged. |
| 15 | But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man. |
| 16 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. |