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2 And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God,

² for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

³ and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;

⁴ and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power --

⁵ that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶ And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

⁷ but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

⁸ which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

⁹ but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him --'

¹⁰ but to us did God reveal [them] through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God,

¹¹ for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God.

¹² And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that [is] of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

¹³ which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

¹⁴ and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because spiritually they are discerned;

¹⁵ and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned;

¹⁶ for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ.

3 And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly -- as to babes in Christ;

² with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

³ for yet ye are fleshly, for where [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

⁴ for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I -- of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

⁵ Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God was giving growth;

⁷ so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth -- God;

⁸ and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

⁹ for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God that was given to me, as a wise master-builder, a foundation I have laid, and another doth build on [it],

¹¹ for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;

¹² and if any one doth build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw --

¹³ of each the work shall become manifest, for the day shall declare [it], because in fire it is revealed, and the work of each, what kind it is, the fire shall prove;

¹⁴ if of any one the work doth remain that he built on [it], a wage he shall receive;

¹⁵ if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

¹⁶ have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

¹⁷ if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

¹⁹ for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

²⁰ and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

²¹ So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

²² whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours,

²³ and ye [are] Christ's, and Christ [is] God's.