Bible, King James Version
1_Corinthians
1Cor.2
[1] And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with
excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the
testimony of God.
[2] For I determined not to know any thing among you, save
Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
[3] And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in
much trembling.
[4] And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
power:
[5] That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men,
but in the power of God.
[6] Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect:
yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this
world, that come to nought:
[7] But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the
hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our
glory:
[8] Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had
they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
glory.
[9] But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love him.
[10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for
the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
[11] For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the
spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth
no man, but the Spirit of God.
[12] Now we have received, not the spirit of the world,
but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God.
[13] Which things also we speak, not in the words which
man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
[14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he
know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
[15] But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he
himself is judged of no man.
[16] For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may
instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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