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For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom,

For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

But we speak God's wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, 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 what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God's except the Spirit of God.

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

"For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,

for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?

For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to Apollos," are you not merely human?

For we are God's servants, working together; you are God's field, God's building.

For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.

the work of each builder will become visible, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.

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

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

So let no one boast about human leaders. For all things are yours,