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1 When I came to you, brothers, announcing the testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance of speech or wisdom.
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And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
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I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.
4 My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power,
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My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
5 so that your faith might not be based on men's wisdom but on God's power.
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so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
6 However, among the mature we do speak a wisdom, but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
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We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 On the contrary, we speak God's hidden wisdom in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory.
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No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age knew it, for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and what has never come into a man's heart, is what God has prepared for those who love Him.
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However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10 Now God has revealed them to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.
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these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
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