1 Corinthians 2:6–16

⁶Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are ^amature; a wisdom, however, not of ^bthis age nor of the rulers of this age, who are ^cpassing away;

⁷but we speak God’s wisdom in a ^amystery, the hidden wisdom which God ^bpredestined before the ^cages to our glory;

⁸the 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;

⁹but just as it is written,

“^aThings which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,

And which have not entered the heart of man,

All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

^101aFor to us God revealed them ^bthrough the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the ^cdepths of God.

¹¹For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the ^aspirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

¹²Now we ^ahave received, not 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,

¹³which things we also speak, ^anot in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ¹combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

¹⁴But ¹a ^anatural man ^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 ²appraised.

¹⁵But he who is ^aspiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.

¹⁶For ^awho has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But ^bwe have the mind of Christ.