1 Corinthians 2
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When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. Begin Abide·
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For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Begin Abide·
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I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. Begin Abide·
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My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, Begin Abide·
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so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. Begin Abide·
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Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. Begin Abide·
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No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. Begin Abide·
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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. Begin Abide·
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Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.” Begin Abide·
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But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. Begin Abide·
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For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Begin Abide·
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We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. Begin Abide·
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And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. Begin Abide·
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The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. Begin Abide·
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The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. Begin Abide·
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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. Begin Abide·