And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I ^adid not come as someone superior in ¹speaking ability or ²wisdom, as I proclaimed to you ^bthe ³testimony of God. 2 For I determined to know nothing among you except ^aJesus Christ, and Him crucified. 3 I also was with you in ^aweakness and ^bfear, and in great trembling, 4 and my ¹message and my preaching were ^anot in persuasive words of ²wisdom, but in demonstration of ^bthe Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith would not ¹rest on the ²wisdom of mankind, but on ^athe power of God.

6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are ^amature; a wisdom, however, not of ^bthis age nor of the rulers of ^cthis age, who are ^dpassing away; 7 but we speak God’s wisdom in a ^amystery, the hidden wisdom which God ^bpredestined before the ^cages to our glory; 8 the wisdom ^awhich none of the rulers of ^bthis age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified ^cthe Lord of glory; 9 but just as it is written:“^aTHINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD,AND WHICH HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HUMAN HEART,ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM.” 10 ^1aFor to us God revealed them ^bthrough the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the ^cdepths of God. 11 For who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the ^aspirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we ^ahave not received the spirit of ^bthe world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, ^anot in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ¹combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

14 But ¹a ^anatural person ^bdoes not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^cfoolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But the one who is ^aspiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is ¹discerned by no one. 16 For ^aWHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But ^bwe have the mind of Christ.