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For your obedience reached to all; therefore, I rejoice over you. But I desire you to be truly wise as to good, but simple toward evil.

but now has been made plain, and by prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known for obedience of faith to all the nations;

I give thanks to my God always concerning you for the grace of God given to you in Christ Jesus,

For concerning you, my brothers, it was shown to me by those of Chloe that there are strifes among you.

Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

And I also baptized the house of Stephanas. For the rest, I do not know if I baptized any other.

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to announce the gospel, not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ be made of no effect.

For the Word of the cross is foolishness to those being lost, but to us being saved, it is the power of God.

For it has been written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the understanding ones." Isa. 29:14

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.

And since Jews ask for a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

For you see your calling, brothers, that there are not many wise according to flesh, nor many powerful, not many wellborn.

For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and Him having been crucified.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, having been hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

according as it has been written, "Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard," nor has it risen up into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those that love Him. Isa. 64:4

But God revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of a man within him? So also no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God.

But a natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them , because they are spiritually discerned.

For "who has known the mind of the Lord?" "Who will teach Him?" But we have the mind of Christ. Isa. 40:13