Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 CorinthiansWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians
Weymouth, Richard Francis
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002:006 Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom;
a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor
to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away.
002:007 But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of
God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began,
God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us;
002:008 a wisdom which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses,
for if they had possessed it, they would never have crucified
the Lord of glory.
002:009 But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which
eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered
the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them
that love Him.
002:010 For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil through the
teaching of the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything,
including the depths of the divine nature.
002:011 For, among human beings, who knows a man's inner thoughts except
the man's own spirit within him? In the same way, also,
only God's Spirit is acquainted with God's inner thoughts.
002:012 But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings
that have been so freely given to us by God.
002:013 Of these we speak--not in language which man's wisdom teaches us,
but in that which the Spirit teaches--adapting, as we do,
spiritual words to spiritual truths.
002:014 The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God,
and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they
are spiritually judged.
002:015 But the spiritual man judges of everything, although he is
himself judged by no one.
002:016 For who has penetrated the mind of the Lord, and will
instruct Him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.
003:001 And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak
to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings--
mere babes in Christ.
003:002 I fed you with milk and not with solid food, since for this
you were not yet strong enough. And even now you are
not strong enough:
003:003 you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife
continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual
and are living and acting like mere men of the world?
003:004 For when some one says, "I belong to Paul," and another says,
"I belong to Apollos," is not this the way men of the world speak?
003:005 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just
God's servants, through whose efforts, and as the Lord granted
power to each, you accepted the faith.
003:006 I planted and Apollos watered; but it was God who was,
all the time, giving the increase.
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