When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 1Co 1:171Co 2:131Co 2:4Exo 4:10Rom 16:181Jn 5:11-132Ti 1:8Jer 1:6-7 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. Gal 6:141Co 1:22-25Php 3:8-10Jhn 17:3Gal 3:1 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 2Co 13:41Co 4:10-132Co 12:5-102Co 13:92Co 10:102Co 4:12Co 4:162Co 4:7-12 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 1Co 4:201Th 1:51Co 1:171Co 2:1Rom 15:192Pe 1:161Co 2:13Col 2:4 that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 2Co 4:72Co 12:92Co 6:71Co 1:171Co 3:6Act 16:14
We 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. Heb 5:14Jas 3:151Co 2:82Co 4:41Co 1:18-201Co 1:281Pe 5:10Eph 4:11-13 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, Col 1:26-272Pe 1:3Rom 16:25-26Mat 11:25Mat 13:35Psa 78:21Pe 5:10Eph 3:4-9 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. Act 13:27Jas 2:11Co 2:6Act 7:2Psa 24:7-101Co 1:26-281Ti 1:132Co 3:14 But as it is written, Isa 64:4Psa 31:19Jas 1:12Rom 8:28Isa 65:17Jas 2:5Heb 11:16Mat 25:34
“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
these God has prepared for those who love him.” 1
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. Jhn 14:26Eph 3:5Luk 10:21Jhn 16:13Eph 3:3Gal 1:12Mat 13:11Mat 16:17 For 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. Pro 20:271Co 2:10Jer 17:9Pro 14:10Rom 11:33-34Pro 20:5 But 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. 1Jn 2:27Rom 8:5-61Jn 2:201Jn 5:19-201Jn 4:4-5Jhn 16:14-15Rom 8:15-162Co 4:4 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 1Co 2:141Co 2:41Co 1:171Co 12:1-31Co 2:1Col 3:161Pe 1:121Co 10:3-5 Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1Co 1:18Rom 8:5-8Mat 13:11-172Co 4:4-61Jn 2:271Co 15:46Jud 1:19Jas 3:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. 1Th 5:21Heb 5:14Pro 28:51Jn 4:11Co 14:37Gal 6:1Eph 4:13-14Php 1:10 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” 2 But we have Christ’s mind. Isa 40:13-14Rom 11:34Jhn 16:13-16Jhn 15:15Job 15:8Jer 23:18Eph 3:3-4Jhn 17:6-8