| 1 | And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ. |
| 2 | For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but 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 in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power; |
| 5 | That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. |
| 6 | Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought; |
| 7 | But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: |
| 8 | Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. |
| 9 | But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. |
| 10 | But to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. |
| 11 | For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God. |
| 12 | Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God. |
| 13 | Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. |
| 14 | But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. |
| 15 | But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. |
| 16 | For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that we may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. |
