| Chapter 2 |
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When I came to you, brothers, I didn`t come with excellence 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, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. |
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I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. |
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My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, |
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that your faith wouldn`t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. |
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We speak wisdom, however, among those who 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, 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 wouldn`t have crucified the Lord of glory. |
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But as it is written, "Things which eye didn`t see, and ear didn`t hear, Which didn`t enter into the heart of man, Whatever things God prepared for those who love him." |
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But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. |
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For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God`s Spirit. |
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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 by God. |
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Which things also we speak, not in words which man`s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. |
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Now the natural man doesn`t receive the things of the God`s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can`t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. |
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But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one. |
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"For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ`s mind. |