1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except 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 were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6 Yet we do speak wisdom among the mature; but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory,
8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written: "Things which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love him."
10 But to us God revealed them through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also the things of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God;
13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one.
16 For "who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.