1 - And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God,
2 - for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;
3 - and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;
4 - and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power--
5 - that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 - And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age--of those becoming useless,
7 - but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,
8 - which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;
9 - but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'
10 - but to us did God reveal <FI>them<Fi> through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,
11 - for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that <FI>is<Fi> in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.
12 - And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that <FI>is<Fi> of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,
13 - which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,
14 - and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;
15 - and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;
16 - for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we--we have the mind of Christ.
