50 lines
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50 lines
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## Paul's Reliance upon the Spirit
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###### 1
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And when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superiority of word or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the witness of God.
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###### 2
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For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
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###### 3
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And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,
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###### 4
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and my word and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
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###### 5
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so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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###### 6
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Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature, a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being abolished.
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###### 7
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But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the _wisdom_ which has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages to our glory,
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###### 8
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which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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###### 9
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But just as it is written, "Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And _which_ have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him."
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###### 10
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But to us God revealed _them_ through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
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###### 11
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For who among men knows the _depths_ of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the _depths_ of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
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###### 12
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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the _depths_ graciously given to us by God,
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###### 13
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of which _depths_ we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual _depths_ with spiritual _words_.
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###### 14
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But a natural man does not accept the _depths_ of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined.
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###### 15
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But he who is spiritual examines all things, yet he himself is examined by no one.
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###### 16
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For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will direct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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