2And I, brethren, when I came to you, ^acame not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you ^bthe testimony of God. ²For I determined not to know any thing among you, ^csave Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³And ^dI was with you ^ein weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴And my speech and my preaching was ^anot with ^||enticing words of man’s wisdom, but ^fin demonstration of the Spirit and of power: ⁵That your faith should not ^†stand in the wisdom of men, but ^gin the power of God.

⁶Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are ^hperfect: yet ^anot the wisdom ⁱof this world, nor of the ^pprinces of this world, ^kthat come to nought: ⁷But we speak the wisdom of God ^lin a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, ^mwhich God ordained ⁿbefore the world unto our glory: ⁸^oWhich none of the ^pprinces ⁱof this world knew: for ^qhad they known it, they would not have crucified ^rthe Lord of glory. ⁹But as it is written, ^sEye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have ^tentered into the heart of man, the things which God hath ^uprepared for them that love him. ¹⁰But ^xGod hath revealed them unto us ^yby his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. ¹¹^zFor what man knoweth the things of a man, ^asave the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but ^bthe Spirit of God. ¹²Now ^cwe have received, not the spirit of the world, but ^cthe spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ¹³Which things also we speak, ^dnot in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; ^ecomparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴^fBut the ^gnatural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: ^hfor they are foolishness unto him: ⁱneither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵But ^khe that is spiritual ^||^ljudgeth all things, yet he himself is ^||^ljudged of no man. ¹⁶^mFor who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he ^†may instruct him? But ⁿwe have the mind of Christ.

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aver. 4, 6, 13. So 2 Cor. 1:12. See ch. 1:17.
bSee ch. 1:6.
e 2 Cor. 11:30. & 12:5, 9, 10. Gal. 4:13. So ch. 4:10. 2 Cor. 10:1, 10.
aver. 4, 6, 13. So 2 Cor. 1:12. See ch. 1:17.
||Or, persuasible.
f Rom. 15:19. 1 Thess. 1:5. So ch. 4:20. 2 Pet. 1:16. Comp. Luke 4:32.
†Gr. be.
g 2 Cor. 4:7. & 6:7. So 2 Cor. 10:4. & 12:9.
hch. 14:20 marg. Comp. ch. 3:1. See Matt. 5:48.
aver. 4, 6, 13. So 2 Cor. 1:12. See ch. 1:17.
ich. 1:20. ver. 8. & 3:18, (19). 2 Cor. 4:4. Ephes. 1:21. & 6:12. Comp. James 3:15.
pver. 6. John 7:48 (Gk.).
kch. 1:28. See ch. 13:8. Comp. Ps. 146:4.
lSee Rom. 16:25.
m Acts 4:28 (Gk.).
nSo 2 Tim. 1:9.
oSee Matt. 11:25.
pver. 6. John 7:48 (Gk.).
ich. 1:20. ver. 8. & 3:18, (19). 2 Cor. 4:4. Ephes. 1:21. & 6:12. Comp. James 3:15.
qSee Acts 3:17. Comp. Luke 23:34.
sCited generally from Isai. 64:4.
t Acts 7:23 (Gk.).
uSee Matt. 25:34.
xSee Matt. 13:11. So Gal. 1:12, 16. Eph. 3:3, 5.
ySee John 14:26.
z Judith 8:14. Comp. ver. 16.
bSee Rom. 8:9. Comp. John 3:8.
cSo Rom. 8:15.
cSo Rom. 8:15.
dSee ch. 1:17.
fSo John 14:17.
gch. 15:44, 46. James 3:15 marg. Jude 19 (Gk.).
hch. 1:18, 21, 23.
iSo Rom. 8:5–7.
kSo Prov. 27:19? & 28:5. 1 John 4:1.
||Or, discerneth.
l Acts 4:9 (Gk.). ch. 4:3, 4. & 9:3 (Gk.). & 10:25, 27 (Gk.). & 14:24.
||Or, discerned. ver. 14.
l Acts 4:9 (Gk.). ch. 4:3, 4. & 9:3 (Gk.). & 10:25, 27 (Gk.). & 14:24.
mCited from Isai. 40:13. See Rom. 11:34.
†Gr. shall.
nSo John 15:15. & 16:13.

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