1 Corinthians 1:21

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ,

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, “My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?”

“Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Blessed be Yahweh’s name, from this time forward and forever more.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?

then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’ ”

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, “Father, I thank you that you listened to me.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

far above all rule, authority, power, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

but we will bless Yah, from this time forward and forever more. Praise Yah!

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’ ”

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

Daniel answered, “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

to the intent that now through the assembly the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places,

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!