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Chapter 2 |
| 1 | And I,
brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom,
declaring unto you the testimony of God. |
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2 | For I determined not to know
any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. |
| 3 | And I was
with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. |
| 4 | And my
speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power: |
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5 | That your faith should not
stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. |
| 6 | Howbeit we
speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor
of the princes of this world, that come to nought: |
| 7 | But we speak
the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained
before the world unto our glory: |
| 8 | Which none of the princes of
this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory. |
| 9
| But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him. |
| 10 | But God hath revealed them unto us by his
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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| 11 | For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which
is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of
God. |
| 12 |
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to
us of God. |
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| Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's
wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual. |
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14 | But the natural man receiveth not the things of the
Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. |
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15 | But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. |
| 16 | For who hath
known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of
Christ. |
