1 Corinthians 2

And when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superior speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and fear and much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power, so that your faith would not rest on human wisdom but on the power of God. Yet we speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. Rather, we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom that God predestined before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age knew it, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written,
“What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and what has not entered a human heart, God has prepared for those who love him.” For God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who among people knows the things of a person except that person’s spirit within? So too no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. But we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. We also speak of these things, not in words taught by human wisdom but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things with spiritual words. But the natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned. But the spiritual person discerns all things, yet is himself judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

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