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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. |
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