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

2 F or I determined not to know anything 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 were not in persuasive words of 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 W e speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:

7 b ut we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:

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

9 b ut as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

10 B ut unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 F or who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.

12 B ut we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.

13 W hich things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

14 N ow the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

15 B ut he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man.

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