1 Corinthians 2:4-16

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⁴ My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,^(A) but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,^{(B) 5} so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.^(C)

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

⁶ We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,^(D) but not the wisdom of this age^(E) or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.^{(F) 7} No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery^(G) that has been hidden^(H) and that God destined for our glory before time began. ⁸ None of the rulers of this age^(I) understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.^{(J) 9} However, as it is written:

¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed^(L) to us by his Spirit.^(M)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts^(N) except their own spirit^(O) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² What we have received is not the spirit^(P) of the world,^(Q) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom^(R) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.^{[b] 14} The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(S) but considers them foolishness,^(T) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ The person with the Spirit^(U) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶ for,

But we have the mind of Christ.^(W)