Sit at My Right Hand
A Psalm of David.
1 sThe Lord says to my Lord:
t“Sit at my right hand,
until I make your enemies your footstool.”
2 The Lord sends forth from Zion
your mighty scepter.
uRule in the midst of your enemies!
3 Your people will offer themselves vfreely
on the day of your power,1
in holy garments;2
from the womb of the morning,
the dew of your youth will be yours.3
4 wThe Lord has sworn
and xwill not change his mind,
after the order of aMelchizedek.”
5 The Lord is bat your right hand;
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
6 He will execute cjudgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
over the wide earth.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way;
therefore he will lift up his head.
Proclaiming Christ Crucified
1 And I, when I came to you, brothers,1 did not come proclaiming to you the testimony2 of God with vlofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you wexcept Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in xweakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were ynot in plausible words of wisdom, but zin demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men3 but in the apower of God.
Wisdom from the Spirit
6 Yet among the bmature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a csecret and hidden wisdom of God, which God ddecreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the eLord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,
f“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who glove him”—
10 these things hGod has irevealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For jwho knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have kreceived lnot the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, mthat we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.4
14 nThe natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ofolly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The pspiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 q“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
