| 1. | When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom. |
| 2. | For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. |
| 3. | I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling, |
| 4. | and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, |
| 5. | so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. |
| 6. | Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away. |
| 7. | Rather, we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory, |
| 8. | and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. |
| 9. | But as it is written: "What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him," |
| 10. | this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God. |
| 11. | Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God. |
| 12. | We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God. |
| 13. | And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms. |
| 14. | Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. |
| 15. | The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone. |
| 16. | For "who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?" But we have the mind of Christ. |
