| Chapter 2 |
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And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God. |
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For I did not judge it well to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified. |
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And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling; |
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and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; |
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that your faith might not stand in men`s wisdom, but in God`s power. |
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But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought. |
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But we speak God`s wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: |
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which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;) |
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but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man`s heart, which God has prepared for them that love him, |
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but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. |
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For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God. |
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But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God: |
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which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means. |
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But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; |
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but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one. |
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For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ. |