6We speak wisdom among the perfect, yet not the wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age who are being brought to nothing.7Rather, we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages for our glory.8None of the rulers of this age has known it, for if they had known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.9But as it is written, No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no human heart has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.10For God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.11For who among humans knows the things of a human except the spirit of the human that is in him? In the same way, no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God.12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that have been freely given to us by God.13We speak of these things not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual realities with spiritual words.14The natural person does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.15The spiritual person discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one.16For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.