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For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel -- not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn't be made void.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

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."

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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.

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.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.