1 Corinthians 2:1-16
2 “And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with
superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony
of GOD.
2 For I determined to know nothing among you except JESUS CHRIST, and HIM
crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much
trembling,
4 and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive
words of wisdom, but in demonstration of THE SPIRIT and of power,
5 so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but
on THE POWER OF
GOD.
6 Yet we do speak WISDOM among those
who are mature; a WISDOM,
however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who
are passing away;
7 but we speak GOD’S WISDOM in
a mystery, THE
HIDDEN WISDOM which GOD predestined before the ages to
our glory;
8 THE WISDOM which none of the rulers of this age has understood;
for if they had understood it they would not have crucified THE LORD OF GLORY;
9 but just as it is written,
‘Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,
And which have not entered the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for
those who love Him.’
10 For to us GOD
revealed them through THE SPIRIT; for THE SPIRIT searches all
things, even the depths of GOD.
11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man
except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of
GOD no one
knows except THE SPIRIT OF GOD.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but THE
SPIRIT WHO IS FROM GOD, so that we may know the things freely given to us
by GOD,
13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human
wisdom, but in those taught by THE SPIRIT, combining
spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
14 But a natural
man does not accept the things of THE SPIRIT OF GOD, for they
are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are
spiritually appraised.
15 But he who is spiritual
appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.
16 For who has
known the mind of THE LORD, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of CHRIST.”
