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We

do, however, speak

a message of wisdom

but not

the wisdom

of this age

among the mature,

infants (1 Cor 3:1)

or of the rulers of this age,

No, we

who are coming to nothing.

declare

God’s wisdom

a mystery

that has been hidden and

However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,

what no ear has heard,

that God destined for our glory before time began.

and what no human mind has conceived”—

None of the rulers of this age

these are the things

the things God has prepared

for those who love him—

for if they had,

God has revealed

understood it,

The Spirit searches all

they

would not have crucified

even the deep things of God

For who knows a person’s thoughts

the Lord of glory.

In the same way

to us

the Holy Spirit (pneuma)

no one knows the thoughts of God

things

by his Spirit.

What we have received is

hidden, mysterious, inconceivable

except

not the spirit of the world,

God’s wisdom

but

except

so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

their own spirit within them?

the Spirit who is from God,

God destined, prepared for, and freely given to us

This is what

not in words taught us by

but in words taught us by

the Spirit of God.

The person

but

does not accept

because they are discerned

The person

explaining spiritual realities

with Spirit-taught words.

we

considers them foolishness,

Human wisdom

makes judgments about

without the Spirit

but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

speak,

with the Spirit

the things that come from

human wisdom

the Spirit,

for,

“Who has known

this age

so as to instruct him?”

But

only through the Spirit.

all things,

we have

the mind of the Lord

and cannot understand them

logos

the Spirit of God

the mind of Christ.

sophia

Isaiah 40:13