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| 2:1 |
And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
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| 2:2 |
For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
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| 2:3 |
And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
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| 2:4 |
And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
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| 2:5 |
that your faith should not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
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| 2:6 |
Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
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| 2:7 |
but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden [wisdom], which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
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| 2:8 |
[the wisdom] which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;
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| 2:9 |
but just as it is written, "Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And [which] have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him."
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| 2:10 |
For to us God revealed [them] through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
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| 2:11 |
For who among men knows the [thoughts] of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so the [thoughts] of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
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| 2:12 |
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God,
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| 2:13 |
which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual [thoughts] with spiritual [words].
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| 2:14 |
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
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| 2:15 |
But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man.
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| 2:16 |
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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