| 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 . |
