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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but to us who are saved, it is the power of God.

But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness;

But to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom] which God ordained before the world to our glory:

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.

But God hath revealed [them] to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

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.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, [even] as to babes in Christ.

Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

I have planted, Apollos watered: but God hath given the increase.

So then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.