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When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence of speech or wisdom as I proclaimed hidden truths about God.
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For I decided to know nothing when I was among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
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And my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom. Instead, they were with the demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
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so that your faith might not be in the wisdom of humans, but in the power of God.
Spiritual Wisdom
(Ephesians 1:15–23)
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Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this world, or of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.
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Instead, we speak God’s wisdom in hidden truth, the hidden wisdom that God predestined before the ages for our glory.
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None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, for if they had understood it at that time, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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But as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has imagined, the things that God has prepared for those who love him.”
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These are the things that God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.
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For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of the person in him? So also, no one knows the deep things of God except the Spirit of God.
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But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things freely given to us by God.
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We speak about these things in words that man’s wisdom cannot teach, but which the Spirit teaches us. The Spirit interprets spiritual words with spiritual wisdom.
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The unspiritual person does not receive the things that belong to the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. He cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned.
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The one who is spiritual judges all things, but he is not subject to the judgment of others.
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“For who can know the mind of the Lord, that he can instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
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