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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 2
The gospel is preached by the power of the Spirit—The Spirit reveals
all things to the saints—The unregenerated 'natural man' cannot receive
the things of the Spirit of God.
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1 AND I, brethren, when I
came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto
you the atestimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know any thing among you,
asave Jesus Christ, and him bcrucified.
3 And I was with you in aweakness,
and in fear, and in much trembling.
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1a
D&C 128:20;
2a
Mark 9:2 (2-13);
Luke 9:29 (28-36);
John 1:14;
2 Pet. 1:16 (16-19);
TG
Jesus Christ, Glory of;
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4 And my aspeech and my preaching
was not with benticing words of man's wisdom, but in
demonstration of the cSpirit and of
dpower:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of
men, but in the apower of God.
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are
aperfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the
princes of this world, that come to nought:
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1a
D&C 128:20;
2a
Mark 9:2 (2-13);
Luke 9:29 (28-36);
John 1:14;
2 Pet. 1:16 (16-19);
TG
Jesus Christ, Glory of;
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7 But we speak the awisdom of God in
a bmystery, even the hidden
cwisdom, which God dordained
before the world unto our glory:
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for
had they known it, they would not have acrucified
the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, aEye hath
not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath bprepared for them that love him.
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1a
D&C 128:20;
2a
Mark 9:2 (2-13);
Luke 9:29 (28-36);
John 1:14;
2 Pet. 1:16 (16-19);
TG
Jesus Christ, Glory of;
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10 But God hath arevealed
them unto us by his bSpirit: for the
cSpirit dsearcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God.
11 For what man aknoweth the things
of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God
bknoweth no man, cbut the
dSpirit of God.
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1a
D&C 128:20;
2a
Mark 9:2 (2-13);
Luke 9:29 (28-36);
John 1:14;
2 Pet. 1:16 (16-19);
TG
Jesus Christ, Glory of;
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12 Now we have received, not the
aspirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that
we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which
man's awisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost
bteacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
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1a
D&C 128:20;
2a
Mark 9:2 (2-13);
Luke 9:29 (28-36);
John 1:14;
2 Pet. 1:16 (16-19);
TG
Jesus Christ, Glory of;
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14 But the anatural man
breceiveth not the things of the cSpirit
of God: for they are dfoolishness unto him: neither can he
eknow them, because they are
fspiritually gdiscerned.
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1a
D&C 128:20;
2a
Mark 9:2 (2-13);
Luke 9:29 (28-36);
John 1:14;
2 Pet. 1:16 (16-19);
TG
Jesus Christ, Glory of;
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15 But he that is spiritual
ajudgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he
may ainstruct him? But we have the
bmind of Christa.
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16a we have the mind of Christ
Jesus Christ prayed unto the Father that those disciples who follow him
might become one even as the Father and Jesus were one. This oneness is a
matter of 'mind' as expressed here. And it is by the power, influence and the
effect of the Holy Ghost, that is the Holy Ghost being upon and in a man that
the mind of that man is in unity with the mind of God. Thus when one is in
and under the influence of the Holy Ghost, he is of the mind of Christ and
he is one with God even as Jesus Christ and His Father be one.
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