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1 Corinthians 2

Paul's Message, the Spirit's Power

And *I*, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

Paul’s Message of Wisdom

When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters,a I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s secret plan.b

For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and *him* crucified.

For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified.

And *I* was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

I came to you in weakness — timid and trembling.

and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;

And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit.

that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.

I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God.

Wisdom from the Spirit of God

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought.

Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten.

But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory:

No, the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of Godc — his plan that was previously hidden, even though he made it for our ultimate glory before the world began.

which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;)

But the rulers of this world have not understood it; if they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord.

but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

That is what the Scriptures mean when they say,
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
what God has prepared
for those who love him.”d

but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

Bute it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.

For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.

But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:

And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us.

which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means].

When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.f

But [the] natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know [them] because they are spiritually discerned;

But people who aren’t spiritualg can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means.

but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one.

Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others.

For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.

For,
“Who can know the LORD’s thoughts?
Who knows enough to teach him?”h
But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.

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