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And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.

so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"—

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"

This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.

For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.

God judges those outside. "Purge the evil person from among you."

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,