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Chapter 2
(1 Corinthians 2 KJV) And I, brethren, when I came to
you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto
you the testimony of God. {2} For I determined not to know any thing
among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. {3} And I was with
you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. {4} And my
speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: {5} That your faith
should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. {6}
Howbeit 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: {7} But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the
hidden wisdom, which God ordained 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 crucified the Lord of glory. {9} But as it
is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him. {10} But God hath revealed them unto us by his
Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of
God. {11} For 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. {12} Now 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. {13} Which things also we
speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the
Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. {14}
But 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. {15} But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. {16} For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ.
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