| 1. | And I, having come unto you, brethren, came -- not in superiority of discourse or wisdom -- declaring to you the testimony of God, | 
| 2. | for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified; | 
| 3. | and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you; | 
| 4. | and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power -- | 
| 5. | that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. | 
| 6. | And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless, | 
| 7. | but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory, | 
| 8. | which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified; | 
| 9. | but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him --' | 
| 10. | but to us did God reveal `them' through His Spirit, for the Spirit all things doth search, even the depths of God, | 
| 11. | for who of men hath known the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that `is' in him? so also the things of God no one hath known, except the Spirit of God. | 
| 12. | And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that `is' of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us, | 
| 13. | which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing, | 
| 14. | and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know `them', because spiritually they are discerned; | 
| 15. | and he who is spiritual, doth discern indeed all things, and he himself is by no one discerned; | 
| 16. | for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we -- we have the mind of Christ. |