The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

 1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the ^atestimony of God.

 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, ^asave Jesus Christ, and him ^bcrucified.

 3 And I was with you in ^aweakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

 4 And my ^aspeech and my preaching was not with ^benticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the ^cSpirit and of ^dpower:

 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the ^apower of God.

 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are ^aperfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

 7 But we speak the ^awisdom of God in a ^bmystery, even the hidden ^cwisdom, which God ^dordained before the world unto our glory:

 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have ^acrucified the Lord of glory.

 9 But as it is written, ^aEye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath ^bprepared for them that love him.

 10 But God hath ^arevealed them unto us by his ^bSpirit: for the ^cSpirit ^dsearcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

 11 For what man ^aknoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God ^bknoweth no man, ^cbut the ^dSpirit of God.

 12 Now we have received, not the ^aspirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s ^awisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost ^bteacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

 14 But the ^anatural man ^breceiveth not the things of the ^cSpirit of God: for they are ^dfoolishness unto him: neither can he ^eknow them, because they are ^fspiritually ^gdiscerned.

 15 But he that is spiritual ^ajudgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may ^ainstruct him? But we have the ^bmind of Christ.