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1 Corinthians 2

And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.a

Proclaiming Christ Crucified

And I, when I came to you, brothers,a did not come proclaiming to you the testimonyb of God with lofty speech or wisdom.

For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,

My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of menc but in the power of God.

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

Wisdom from the Spirit

Yet among the mature 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.

No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”b —
the things God has prepared for those who love him —

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 are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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 their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit 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.

What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

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

This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.c

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.d

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”d
But we have the mind of Christ.

“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

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