Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”
For who among them has stood in the council of the Lord to see and to hear his word, or who has paid attention to his word and listened?
“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who 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.
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”
And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.
The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent,
Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom! Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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