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1.    And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in  excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony  of God.
 
2.    For I did not judge it well to know anything among you  save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
 
3.    And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much  trembling;
 
4.    and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of  wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;
 
5.    that your faith might not stand in men`s wisdom, but in  God`s power.
 
6.    But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of  this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to  nought.
 
7.    But we speak God`s wisdom in a\ mystery, that hidden  \wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our  glory:
 
8.    which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they  known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)
 
9.    but 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.    but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit  searches all things, even the depths of God.
 
11.    For 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.    But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but  the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which  have been freely given to us of God:
 
13.    which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom,  but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual  things by spiritual means.
 
14.    But the natural man does not receive the things of the  Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know  them because they are spiritually discerned;
 
15.    but the spiritual discerns all things, and he is  discerned of no one.
 
16.    For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall  instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.