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So that no flesh might have glory before God.

But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.

But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.

So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?

If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

Let us be judged as servants of Christ, and as those who are responsible for the secret things of God.

For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.