1And I, when I came to you, brothers,[a]did not come proclaiming to youthe testimony[b]of God with lofty speech or wisdom.2For I decided to know nothing among you exceptJesus Christ and him crucified.3AndI was with youin weakness and in fear and much trembling,4and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration ofthe Spirit and of power,5so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men[c]butin the power of God.6Yet amongthe mature we do impart wisdom, although it is nota wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,who are doomed to pass away.7But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God,which God decreed before the ages for our glory.8None ofthe rulers of this age understood this, forif they had, they would not have crucifiedthe Lord of glory.9But, as it is written,What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,nor the heart of man imagined,what God haspreparedfor those who love him10these thingsGod has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, eventhe depths of God.11For who knows a person's thoughtsexcept the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.12Nowwe have received notthe spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.13And we impart thisin words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit,interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.[d]14The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they arefolly to him, andhe is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.15Thespiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.16For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him? Butwe have the mind of Christ.