1 Corinthians 2; Isaiah 64:1-4; 1 Corinthians 15:41-49; Job 33:1-21; Job 36:1-16; 2 Kings 17:13

1 Corinthians 2

1 When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.

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

3 And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;

4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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

6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

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

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

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

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

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

12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.

14 The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

15 The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

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

Isaiah 64:1-4

1 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence--

2 as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil--to make thy name known to thy adversaries, and that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.

4 From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides thee, who works for those who wait for him.

1 Corinthians 15:41-49

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.

43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual body.

45 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46 But it is not the spiritual which is first but the physical, and then the spiritual.

47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

48 As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven.

49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Job 33:1-21

1 "But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words.

2 Behold, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.

3 My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.

4 The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

5 Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.

6 Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.

7 Behold, no fear of me need terrify you; my pressure will not be heavy upon you.

8 "Surely, you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the sound of your words.

9 You say, 'I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me as his enemy;

11 he puts my feet in the stocks, and watches all my paths.'

12 "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you. God is greater than man.

13 Why do you contend against him, saying, 'He will answer none of my words'?

14 For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.

15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,

16 then he opens the ears of men, and terrifies them with warnings,

17 that he may turn man aside from his deed, and cut off pride from man;

18 he keeps back his soul from the Pit, his life from perishing by the sword.

19 "Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;

20 so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.

21 His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen; and his bones which were not seen stick out.

Job 36:1-16

1 And Eli'hu continued, and said:

2 "Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God's behalf.

3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

4 For truly my words are not false; one who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

5 "Behold, God is mighty, and does not despise any; he is mighty in strength of understanding.

6 He does not keep the wicked alive, but gives the afflicted their right.

7 He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings upon the throne he sets them for ever, and they are exalted.

8 And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,

9 then he declares to them their work and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.

10 He opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

11 If they hearken and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.

12 But if they do not hearken, they perish by the sword, and die without knowledge.

13 "The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

14 They die in youth, and their life ends in shame.

15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.

16 He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.

2 Kings 17:13

13 Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets."