And I, brothers and sisters, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the sacred secret of God.
For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of spirit and of power
so that your trust should not stand in human wisdom, but in the power of God.
Wisdom from the Spirit
However, we do speak wisdom among those who are mature. But not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
But we speak God’s wisdom that was kept in a sacred secret, and that has been hidden, which God decided in advance before the ages for our glory,
which none of the rulers of this age knew, for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
But as it is written, Things that no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and which have not come up into the heart of man, God prepared those things for those who love him.
But God has revealed them to us through the spirit, for the spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
For who among people knows the things of a person, except the spirit of the person that is in him? Even so the things of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God.
Now we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, so that we can know the things that were freely given to us by God.
And we speak about these things, not in words that man’s wisdom teaches, but words that the spirit teaches, combining spiritual things with spiritual words.
But the worldly-minded person does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Now the spiritual person judges all things, but he himself is judged by no one.
For who has come to know the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.