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I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the testimony of God to you, I did not come with eloquent words or with wisdom. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6 However, we do speak a message of wisdom among those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 On the contrary, we speak of God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, which God has predestined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age knew of this, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
and no human heart has conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love Him”—
10 but God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given to us. 13 These things we also speak of, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual truths to people who are spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, because they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person discerns and makes judgments about all things, but he himself cannot be rightly judged by anyone else.
16“For who has known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct Him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.