| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. |
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the |
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Proclaiming Christ Crucified |
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And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
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For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. Acts 18.9
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And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
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that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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The Revelation by God's Spirit |
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¶ 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:
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but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory;
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which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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But as it is written,
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Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, |
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neither have entered into the heart of man, |
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the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. Is. 64.4 |
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But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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¶ 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.
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But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
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For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? Is. 40.13 But we have the mind of Christ.
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