1 Corinthians 2
1 And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not proclaim God’s testimony with impressive words or wisdom.
2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 I was among you in weakness, in fear, and with much trembling.
4 My words and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
5 This was so that your faith would rest not on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
6 Yet we do speak wisdom among the mature—wisdom, however, not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing.
7 Rather, we speak God’s wisdom in mystery, the hidden wisdom that God ordained before the ages for our glory.
8 None of the rulers of this age knew it; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, no ear has heard, and what has never entered the human heart—this is what God has prepared for those who love him.”
10 For God revealed it to us through the Spirit, because the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11 For who among human beings knows the things of a human being except that person’s own spirit within? In the same way, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12 We did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we might know what God has freely given us.
13 And we speak of these things, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things in spiritual terms.
14 But the natural person does not accept the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to that person, and they cannot understand them, because they are discerned spiritually.
15 But the spiritual person examines everything, and that person is examined by no one.
16 For who has known the Lord’s mind, so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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