1Corinthians:2

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* And I , brothers , when I came to you (note :){+}(:note ), did not come with excellency of speech or of wisdom , proclaiming to you {+} the testimony of God . * For I determined not to know anything among you (note :){+}(:note ), except Jesus Christ , and him crucified . * And I was with you (note :){+}(:note ) in weakness , and in fear , and in much trembling . * And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom , but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power : * that your (note :){+}(:note ) faith should not stand in the wisdom of men , but in the power of God . * We speak wisdom , however , among those who are full-grown : yet a wisdom not of this age , nor of the rulers of this age , who are coming to nothing : * but we speak God 's wisdom in a mystery , [even ] the [wisdom ] that has been hidden , which God predetermined before the ages to our glory : * which none of the rulers of this age has known : for had they known it , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory : * but as it is written , Eye has not seen , nor ear heard , neither have they entered into the heart of man , the things which God has prepared for those who love him . * But to us God revealed [them ] through the Spirit : for the Spirit searches all things , yes , the deep things of God . * For who among men knows the things of a man , except the spirit of the man , which is in him ? Even so the things of God none knows , except the Spirit of God . * 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 . * Which things also we speak , not in words which man 's wisdom teaches , but which the Spirit teaches ; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words ]. * Now the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness to him ; and he can 't know them , because they are spiritually judged . * But he who is spiritual judges all things , and he himself is judged of no man . * For who has known the mind of the Lord , that he should instruct him ? But we have the mind of Christ .

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