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And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I ^(C1)did not come as someone superior in ^(F1)speaking ability or ^(F2)wisdom, as I proclaimed to you ^(C2)the ^(F3)testimony of God.

For I determined to know nothing among you except ^(C1)Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

I also was with you in ^(C1)weakness and ^(C2)fear, and in great trembling,

and my ^(F1)message and my preaching were ^(C1)not in persuasive words of ^(F2)wisdom, but in demonstration of ^(C2)the Spirit and of power,

so that your faith would not ^(F1)rest on the ^(F2)wisdom of mankind, but on ^(C1)the power of God.

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are ^(C1)mature; a wisdom, however, not of ^(C2)this age nor of the rulers of ^(C2)this age, who are ^(C3)passing away;

but we speak God's wisdom in a ^(C1)mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ^(C2)predestined before the ^(C3)ages to our glory;

the wisdom ^(C1)which none of the rulers of ^(C2)this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified ^(C3)the Lord of glory;

but just as it is written: "^(C1)THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND WHICH HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HUMAN HEART, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."

^(F1)(C1)For to us God revealed them ^(C2)through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the ^(C3)depths of God.

For who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the ^(C1)spirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.

Now we ^(C1)have not received the spirit of ^(C2)the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God.

We also speak these things, ^(C1)not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ^(F1)combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

But ^(F1)a ^(C1)natural person ^(C2)does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(C3)foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But the one who is ^(C1)spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is ^(F1)discerned by no one.

For ^(C1)WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But ^(C2)we have the mind of Christ.