1 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.
2 - For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ: and him crucified.
3 - And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
4 - And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power:
5 - That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6 - Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.
7 - But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:
8 - Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 - But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 - But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 - For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.
12 - Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God.
13 - Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 - But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.
15 - But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is judged of no man.
16 - For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
