1 A nd I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 F or I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3 A nd I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4 A nd my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 t hat your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 H owbeit 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 b ut we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 w hich none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 B ut 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 B ut God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 F or 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 N ow 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 W hich 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 B ut 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 B ut he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 F or who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.