Paul’s preaching at Corinth
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📚And I, brethren, when I came to you declaring to you the testimony of God, I did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom✭, 2 📚✭for I determined not to know anything among you except 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 were not with persuasive words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 📚✭so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.God’s Spirit gives God’s wisdom
6 📚✭However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, but not the wisdom of this age, or of the rulers of this age, that comes to nothing. 7 📚But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God ordained for our glory before the world began, 8 📚which none of the rulers of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory✭. 9 📚✭But as it is written,
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
nor have entered the heart of man,
the things which God has prepared
for those who love him.
10 📚✭But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 📚✭For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. 12 📚✭Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is of God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. 13 📚✭These things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual✭. 14 📚✭But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually evaluated. 15 📚✭But he who is spiritual properly evaluates all these things, yet he himself is not properly evaluated✭ by any man.
16 📚✭For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.