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1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.
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When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom.
2 For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ: and him crucified.
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For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
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And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power:
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My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
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so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought.
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Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish.
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:
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But we speak God's wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
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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: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.
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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"—
10 But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God, no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.
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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.
12 Now, we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God.
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Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
13 Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.
14 But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him: and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.
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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.
15 But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is judged of no man.
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Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else's scrutiny.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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"For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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