Wisdom
From The Spirit
When I
came to you brothers,
I did
not come with Eloquence or Superior Wisdom
As I
Proclaimed to you the Testimony about God.
2 For
I was Resolved t know nothing while I was with you
EXCEPT
JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED.
I CAME
TO YOU IN WEAKNESS AND FEAR,
AND
WITH MUCH TREMBLING.
4 MY
MESSAGE AND MY PREACHING
WERE
NOT WITH WISE AND PERSUASIVE WORDS,
BUT
WITH A DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT'S POWER,
5 SO
THAT YOUR FAITH
MIGHT
NOT REST ON MEN'S WISDOM,
BUT ON
GOD'S POWER.
6 We
do, however,
SPEAK
A MESSAGE OF WISDOM AMONG THE MATURE,
BUT
NOT THE WISDOM OF THIS AGE
OR OF
THE RULERS OF THIS AGE,
WHO
ARE COMING TO NOTHING.
7 NO
WE SPEAK OF GOD'S SECRET WISDOM,
A
WISDOM THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN
AND
THAT GOD DESTINED FOR OUR GLORY
BEFORE
TIME BEGAN.
8 NONE
OF THE RULERS OF THIS AGE UNDERSTOOD IT,
FOR IF
THY HAD,
THEY
WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY.
9
However as it is written:
'No
eye has seen
No ear
has heard
No
mind has conceived
What
God has Prepared for those who love Him'
10 BUT
GOD HAS REVEALED IT TO US BY HIS SPIRIT.
THE
SPIRIT SEARCHES ALL THINGS,
EVEN
THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD.
11 For
who among men know the thoughts of a man
Except
the man's spirit within him?
IN THE
SAME WAY
NO ONE
KNOWS THE THOUGHTS OF GOD
EXCEPT
THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
12 WE
HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD
BUT
THE SPIRIT WHO IS FROM GOD,
THAT
WE MAY FREELY UNDERSTAND
WHAT
GOD HAS FREELY GIVEN US.
13
THIS IS WHAT WE SPEAK
NOT IN
WORDS TAUGHT US BY HUMAN WISDOM
BUT IN
WORDS TAUGHT BY THE SPIRIT,
EXPRESSING
SPIRITUAL TRUTHS IN SPIRITUAL WORDS.
14 The
man without the Spirit
Does
not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God,
FOR
THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS TO HIM,
AND HE
CANNOT UNDERSTAND THEM,
BECAUSE
THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED.
15 THE SPIRITUAL MAN
MAKES
JUDGMENT ABOUT ALL THINGS,
BUT HE
HIMSELF IS NOT SUBJECT TO ANY MAN'S JUDGMENT:
16
'For who has know the Mind of the Lord
That
he may Instruct Him?'
BUT WE
HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.
(1
Corinthians 2)
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