1Corinthians:2

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* Now , when I cam to you , brethren , I came not with excellency of speech , and of wisdom , declaring to you the testimony of God . * For I determined to make known nothing among you but Jesus Christ , and him crucified . * And I , in weakness and in fear , and in much trembling , was with you . * My discourse , also , and my proclamation , were not with persuasive words of human wisdom ; but with the demonstration of the Spirit , and of power . * That your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men , but in the power of God . * However , we speak wisdom among the perfect : but not the wisdom of this world ; neither of the rulers of this world , who are to be brought to nothing . * But we speak the mysterious wisdom of God , which has been till now concealed ; which God declared before the time of the ages , should be spoken to our glory . * Which none of the rulers of this world knew : for if they had known it , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory . * «For , as it is written ,» 'Those things eye has not seen , and ear has not heard , and into the heart of man have not entered , which God has prepared for them who love him .' * But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit ; for the Spirit searches all things , even the deep things of God . * For who , of men , knows the thoughts of a man , except the spirit of man which is in him : so , also , the thoughts of God no man knows , but the Spirit of God . * Now , we have received , not the spirit of the world , but the Spirit which comes from God , that we might know the things which are gifted to us by God . * Which things , also , we speak , not in words , taught by human wisdom ; but in words taught by the Spirit , explaining spiritual things in spiritual words . * Now , an animal man receives not the thing of the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness to him ; neither can he know them , because they are spiritually examined . * But the spiritual man examines , indeed , all things , yet he is examined by no one . * For what animal man has known the mind of the Lord , who will instruct him ? But we have the mind of Christ .

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