1Cor 2
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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
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For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
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And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power:
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that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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We speak wisdom, however, among them that are full grown: yet a wisdom not of this
world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
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but we speak God`s wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that has been hidden,
which God foreordained before the worlds to our glory:
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which none of the rulers of this world has known: for had they known it, they would
not have crucified the Lord of glory:
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but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which] entered
not into the heart of man, Whatever things God prepared for them that love him.
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But to us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things,
yea, the deep things of God.
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For who among men knows the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is
in him? even so the things of God none knows, save the Spirit of God.
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But 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.
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Which things also we speak, not in words which man`s wisdom teaches, but which the
Spirit teaches; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words].
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Now the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness
to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.
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But he who is spiritual judges all things, and he himself is judged of no man.
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For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the
mind of Christ.