1 ¶ When I came to you brethren, I did not come with lofty oratory or reasoning, as I proclaimed the testimony of God to you.

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 message and my preaching were not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and power:

5 That your faith should not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 ¶ However we do speak a wisdom among the perfected: but not the wisdom of this world, or of the rulers of this world, who will pass away:

7 On the contrary, we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, that God ordained before the world to our glory:

8 Which none of the rulers 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 has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for those who love him.

10 But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man, other than the man’s spirit which is in him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

13 That is what we speak, not in words taught by man’s wisdom, but those taught by the Holy Spirit; comparing spiritual words with spiritual.

14 But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But the spiritual man judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no one.