1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God.

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1 Corinthians 1:17, 1 Corinthians 1:17, 1 Corinthians 2:13, 1 Corinthians 2:4, 1 Corinthians 2:13

2For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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Galatians 6:14, Galatians 6:14, Philippians 3:8, Philippians 3:10, Philippians 3:8

3I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

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2 Corinthians 13:4, 2 Corinthians 13:4, 1 Corinthians 4:10, 1 Corinthians 4:13, 1 Corinthians 4:10

4My speech and my proclaiming were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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1 Corinthians 4:20, 1 Corinthians 4:20, 1 Thessalonians 1:5, 1 Thessalonians 1:5, 1 Corinthians 1:17

5that your faith would not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 6:7

6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

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Hebrews 5:14, Hebrews 5:14, James 3:15, James 3:15, 2 Corinthians 4:4

7But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

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Colossians 1:26, Colossians 1:27, Colossians 1:26, Colossians 1:27, 2 Peter 1:3

8which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

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Acts 13:27, Acts 13:27, James 2:1, James 2:1, Acts 7:2

9But as it is written, "Things which an eye did not see, and an ear did not hear, which did not enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."

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Isaiah 64:4, Isaiah 64:4, Psalms 31:19, Psalms 31:19, James 1:12

10But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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John 14:26, John 14:26, Ephesians 3:5, Ephesians 3:5, Luke 10:21

11For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

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Proverbs 20:27, Proverbs 20:27, Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34, Romans 11:33

12But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

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1 John 2:27, 1 John 2:27, Romans 8:5, Romans 8:6, Romans 8:5

13Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

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1 Corinthians 2:4, 1 Corinthians 2:4, 1 Corinthians 2:14, 1 Corinthians 1:17, 1 Corinthians 2:14

14Now the natural man does not receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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1 Corinthians 1:18, 1 Corinthians 1:18, Romans 8:5, Romans 8:8, Romans 8:5

15But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

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1 Thessalonians 5:21, Proverbs 28:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Proverbs 28:5, Hebrews 5:14

16"For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.

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Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:14, Romans 11:34, Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:14