adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended
upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home;
002:005 so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on
the power of God.
002:006 Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom;
a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor
to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away.
002:007 But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of
God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began,
God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;
002:008 a wisdom which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses,
for if they had possessed it, they would never have crucified
the Lord of glory.
002:009 But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which
eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered
the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them
that love Him.
002:010 For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil through the
teaching of the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything,
including the depths of the divine nature.
002:011 For, among human beings, who knows a man's inner thoughts except
the man's own spirit within him? In the same way, also,
only God's Spirit is acquainted with God's inner thoughts.
002:012 But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings
that have been so freely given to us by God.
002:013 Of these we speak--not in language which man's wisdom teaches us,
but in that which the Spirit teaches--adapting, as we do,
spiritual words to spiritual truths.
002:014 The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God,