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            <div class="label">2</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">proclaimed to you God&#8217;s mystery</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit&#8217;s power, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God&#8217;s power.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God&#8217;s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.2.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No, we declare God&#8217;s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">However, as it is written:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">&#8220;What no eye has seen,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">what no ear has heard,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">and what no human mind has conceived&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 64:4</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">the things God has prepared for those who love him&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.2.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.2.10"><span class="content">The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For who knows a person&#8217;s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CO.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CO.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:13 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CO.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CO.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="content">&#8220;Who has known the mind of the Lord</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="content">so as to instruct him?&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:16 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 40:13</span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CO.2.16"><span class="content">But we have the mind of Christ.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">75</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 75</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 75:1-10 is numbered 75:2-11.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">For the director of music. To the tune of &#8220;Do Not Destroy.&#8221; A psalm of Asaph. A song.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">We praise you, God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">we praise you, for your Name is near;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">people tell of your wonderful deeds.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.75.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You say, &#8220;I choose the appointed time;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="content">it is I who judge with equity.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.75.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the earth and all its people quake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="content">it is I who hold its pillars firm.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">75:3 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.75.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">To the arrogant I say, &#8216;Boast no more,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="content">and to the wicked, &#8216;Do not lift up your horns.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">75:4 </span><span class="fq">Horns </span><span class="ft">here symbolize strength; also in verses 5 and 10.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.75.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not lift your horns against heaven;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="content">do not speak so defiantly.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.75.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one from the east or the west</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="content">or from the desert can exalt themselves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.75.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">It is God who judges:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="content">He brings one down, he exalts another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.75.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">In the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is a cup</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">full of foaming wine mixed with spices;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">drink it down to its very dregs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.75.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">As for me, I will declare this forever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="content">I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.75.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.75.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">who says, &#8220;I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.75.10"><span class="content">but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1JN.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. </span></span></div>
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