1Corinthians:2

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* Brothers , I did not come to you with superiority of speech or with human wisdom , declaring to you the testimony of God . * I decided not to know anything among you , except Jesus Christ and his death on the torture stake . * And I came to you in weakness , and in fear , and in much trembling . * My speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man 's wisdom , but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power , * that your faith should not exist in the wisdom of men , but in the power of God . * How is it we speak wisdom among those who are mature , yet not the wisdom of this age , or of the rulers of this age , who come to nothing ? * We speak the wisdom of God in a secret , even the hidden wisdom , which God ordained before the ages for our glory . * None of the rulers of this age knew for had they known it they would not have impaled the glorious Lord . * It is written : »Eye has not seen , nor ear heard , and it has not entered into the heart of man , the things God prepared for those who love him .« (Isaiah strkjv @64:4 ) * But God revealed them to us by his Spirit . For the Spirit investigates all things , yes even the deep things of God . * For what man knows the things of a man , except the mental disposition that is in man ? Even so no one knows the things of God , but the Spirit of God . * Now we have received , not the spirit of the world , but the Spirit that is from God . This is so we might know the things that are freely given to us from God . * We speak these things , not in the words that man 's wisdom teaches . But we speak them with the words the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual things . * But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God . They are foolishness to him ! He cannot know them , because they are spiritually discerned . * He that is spiritual judges all things , yet no man judges him . * »Who has understood the mind of Jehovah , or has instructed him , as his counselor ?« (Isaiah strkjv @40:13 ) But we do have the mind of Christ .

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