1Brothers and sisters, when I came to you, I did not come with fine speech or clever wisdom as I told you the testimony of God.
2For I decided to know nothing while I was among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and trembling a great deal.
4My speech and my preaching did not use the tempting words of human wisdom. They came with the proof of the Spirit and of power,
5so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of people, but on the power of God.
6Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature. But it is not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.
7We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God appointed before the world began, for our glory.
8None of the rulers of this world knew it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9But as it is written, "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, and it has not entered into the heart of anyone, what God has prepared for those who love him."
10But God has revealed these things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
11For who knows the things of a person, except the spirit of that person which is in him? In the same way, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God. So we may know the things that God has freely given to us.
13These are the things we speak about. We do not use words taught by human wisdom, but words taught by the Holy Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14But the natural person does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. He cannot know them, because they are discerned spiritually.
15But the one who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.
16For who has known the mind of the Lord, so that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.