1And I myself, having come to you, brothers, came not according to excellency of speech or wisdom proclaiming to you the mystery of God.
2For I decided to know nothing of anything among you, except only Jesus the Anointed One and Him crucified.
3And I myself was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;
4and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5so that your trust may not be in wisdom of men but in power of God.
6However we speak wisdom among the mature, however not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age who are coming to naught;
7but we speak wisdom of God in a mystery, which is hidden, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory,
8which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not then have crucified the Lord of glory,
9but even as it has been written: What eye has not seen and ear has not heard and into heart of man has not entered, what God has prepared for those loving Him.
10And to us God revealed it through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
11For who among men knows the things of the man, except only the spirit of the man that is within him? So also no one has known the things of God, except only the Spirit of God.
12Now we ourselves have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may know the things having been granted to us by God;
13which also we speak, not in words taught of human wisdom but in those taught of the Holy Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.
14However the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because they are discerned spiritually.
15However he who is spiritual judges all things, he himself however is judged by no one.
16For who has known the mind of the Lord? Who will instruct Him? However we ourselves have the mind of the Anointed One.