³ I also was with you in ^(A)weakness and ^(B)fear, and in great trembling, ⁴ and my ^[a]message and my preaching were ^(C)not in persuasive words of ^[b]wisdom, but in demonstration of ^(D)the Spirit and of power, ⁵ so that your faith would not ^[c]rest on the ^[d]wisdom of mankind, but on ^(E)the power of God.

⁶ Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are ^(F)mature; a wisdom, however, not of ^(G)this age nor of the rulers of ^(H)this age, who are ^(I)passing away; ⁷ but we speak God’s wisdom in a ^(J)mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ^(K)predestined before the ^(L)ages to our glory; ⁸ the wisdom ^(M)which none of the rulers of ^(N)this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified ^(O)the Lord of glory; ⁹ but just as it is written:

^10 [e](Q)For to us God revealed them ^(R)through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the ^(S)depths of God. ¹¹ For who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the ^(T)spirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we ^(U)have not received the spirit of ^(V)the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. ¹³ We also speak these things, ^(W)not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ^[f]combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

¹⁴ But ^[g]a ^(X)natural person ^(Y)does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(Z)foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But the one who is ^(AA)spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is ^[h]discerned by no one. ¹⁶ For ^(AB)who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But ^(AC)we have the mind of Christ.

¹⁰ For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his ^[a]personal presence is ^(A)unimpressive and ^(B)his speech contemptible.”