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 .