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Corinthians 2
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.
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