7. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages for our glory.
8. None of the rulers of this age knew it. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9. But as it is written, “Eye has not seen,nor ear heard,nor has it entered into the heart of manthe things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10. But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit.For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
11. For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Likewise, no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God.
12. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.
13. These things also we proclaim, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15. But he who is spiritual judges all things. Yet he himself is not judged by anyone.
16. For “who has known the mind of the Lordthat he may instruct Him?”But we have the mind of Christ.