1Corinthians:2

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* And I , brethren , when I came to you , did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God . * For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified . * I was with you in weakness , in fear , and in much trembling . * And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom , but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power , * that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God . * However , we speak wisdom among those who are mature , yet not the wisdom of this age , nor of the rulers of this age , who are coming to nothing . * But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery , the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory , * which none of the rulers of this age knew ; for had they known , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory . * But as it is written : "Eye has not seen , nor ear heard , Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him ." * But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit . For the Spirit searches all things , yes , the deep things of God . * For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him ? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God . * Now we have received , not the spirit of the world , but the Spirit who is from God , that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God . * These things we also speak , not in words which man 's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches , comparing spiritual things with spiritual . * But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God , for they are foolishness to him ; nor can he know them , because they are spiritually discerned . * But he who is spiritual judges all things , yet he himself is rightly judged by no one . * For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him ?" But we have the mind of Christ .

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