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1   And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of 
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 
2   For I determined not to know any thing among you, save 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 with enticing words of 
man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 
5   That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the 
power of God. 
6   Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the 
wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 
7   But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden 
wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 
8   Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known 
it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 
9   But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither 
have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them 
that love him. 
10   But God hath revealed them unto us 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, save the spirit of man 
which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of 
God. 
12   Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the 
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to 
us of God. 
13   Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom 
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with 
spiritual. 
14   But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of 
God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they 
are spiritually discerned. 
15   But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet 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. 
 
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