1 A nd I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

2 F or I did not judge 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 word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of Spirit and of power;

5 t hat your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

6 B ut we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

7 B ut we speak God's wisdom in mystery, that hidden which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

8 w hich none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

9 b ut according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

10 b ut God has revealed to us by Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

11 F or who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

12 B ut we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

13 w hich also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual by spiritual.

14 B ut natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know because they are spiritually discerned;

15 b ut the spiritual discerns all things, and he is discerned of no one.

16 F or who has known the mind of Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.