2) For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

3) I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

4) And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5) that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

6) However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9) But as it is written:

? Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.?

10) But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

11) For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

13) These things we also speak, not in words which man?s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14) But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

3) If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

4) he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

5) useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

6) Now godliness with contentment is great gain.

7) For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content.

9) But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

10) For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

17) Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

18) Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share,

19) storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

42) And the Lord said, ?Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?

43) Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

44) Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.

45) But if that servant says in his heart, ?My master is delaying his coming,? and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,

46) the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

47) And that servant who knew his master?s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

48) But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.