[1] When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the
testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom. [2] For I decided to know
nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. [3] And I was with
you in weakness and in much fear and trembling; [4] and my speech and my
message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the
Spirit and of power, [5] that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of
men but in the power of God. [6] Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom,
although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who
are doomed to pass away. [7] But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of
God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification. [8] None of
the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not
have crucified the Lord of glory. [9] But, as it is written, "What no eye
has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has
prepared for those who love him," [10] God has revealed to us through the
Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. [11]
For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man which
is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit
of God. [12] Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us
by God. [13] And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but
taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess
the Spirit. [14] The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the
Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand
them because they are spiritually discerned. [15] The spiritual man judges
all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. [16] "For who has known
the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of
Christ.
