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And when I came to you, brethren, I ^(a)did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you ^(b)the ^[a]testimony of God.

For I determined to know nothing among you except ^(c)Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

I was with you in ^(d)weakness and in ^(e)fear and in much trembling,

and my ^[b]message and my preaching were ^(f)not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of ^(g)the Spirit and of power,

so that your faith would not ^[c]rest on the wisdom of men, but on ^(h)the power of God.

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are ⁽ⁱ⁾mature; a wisdom, however, not of ^(j)this age nor of the rulers of ^(k)this age, who are ^(l)passing away;

but we speak God's wisdom in a ^(m)mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ⁽ⁿ⁾predestined before the ^(o)ages to our glory;

the wisdom ^(p)which none of the rulers of ^(q)this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified ^(r)the Lord of glory;

but just as it is written, "^(s) Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard , And which have not entered the heart of man , All that God has prepared for those who love Him ."

^[d](t)For to us God revealed them ^(u)through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the ^(v)depths of God.

For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the ^(w)spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

Now we ^(x)have received, not the spirit of ^(y)the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

which things we also speak, ^(z)not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ^[e]combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

But ^[f]a ^(aa)natural man ^(ab)does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(ac)foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually ^[g]appraised.

But he who is ^(ad)spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.

For ^(ae) who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him ? But ^(af)we have the mind of Christ.