| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New Living Translation |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters, I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s secret plan. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I came to you in weakness—timid and trembling. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7No, the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God —his plan that was previously hidden, even though he made it for our ultimate glory before the world began. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But the rulers of this world have not understood it; if they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For, “Who can know the LORD’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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