1And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.[ † ]1 Corinthians 1:23Galatians 6:14 3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.[ † ]Acts 18:12 Corinthians 4:7 4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:[ † ]2 Peter 1:16Romans 15:191 Corinthians 4:20 5that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.[ † ]Romans 1:161 Thessalonians 1:5
6Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom , which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.[ † ]Luke 23:34Matthew 27:33-50
10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.[ † ]Matthew 11:25Matthew 13:11Matthew 16:17Galatians 1:12Ephesians 3:3-5 11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.[ † ]Job 32:8Ecclesiastes 12:71 Corinthians 6:20James 2:26Romans 11:33 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.[ † ]Romans 8:15 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them , because they are spiritually discerned.[ † ]Matthew 16:23 15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.[ † ]Job 15:8Isaiah 40:13Romans 11:34John 15:15