1 Corinthians 2
1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
And Y, britheren, whanne Y cam to you, cam not in the heiynesse of word, ethir of wisdom, tellynge to you the witnessyng of Crist.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
For Y demede not me to kunne ony thing among you, but Crist Jhesu, and hym crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
And Y in sikenesse, and drede, and myche trembling, was among you;
4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
and my word and my preching was not in suteli sturyng wordis of mannus wisdom, but in schewyng of spirit and of vertu;
5 that your faith would not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
that youre feith be not in the wisdom of men, but in the vertu of God.
6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this age (aiōn g165) nor of the rulers of this age (aiōn g165) who are coming to nothing.
For we speken wisdom among perfit men, but not wisdom of this world, nether of princes of this world, that ben distried; (aiōn g165)
7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages (aiōn g165) for our glory,
but we speken the wisdom of God in mysterie, `which wisdom is hid; which wisdom God bifor ordeynede bifor worldis in to oure glorie, (aiōn g165)
8 which none of the rulers of this age (aiōn g165) has known. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
which noon of the princes of this world knew; for if thei hadden knowe, thei schulden neuere haue crucified the Lord of glorie. (aiōn g165)
9 But as it is written, “Things which an eye did not see, and an ear did not hear, which did not enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
But as it is writun, That iye say not, ne eere herde, nether it stiede in to herte of man, what thingis God arayede to hem that louen hym;
10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
but God schewide to vs bi his spirit. For whi the spirit serchith alle thingis, yhe, the depe thingis of God.
11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit.
And who of men woot, what thingis ben of man, but the spirit of man that is in hym? So what thingis ben of God, no man knowith, but the spirit of God.
12 But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
And we han not resseiued the spirit of this world, but the spirit that is of God, that we wite what thingis ben youun to vs of God.
13 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
Whiche thingis we speken also, not in wise wordis of mannus wisdom, but in the doctryn of the spirit, and maken a liknesse of spiritual thingis to goostli men.
14 Now the natural man does not receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
For a beestli man perseyueth not tho thingis that ben of the spirit of God; for it is foli to hym, and he may not vndurstonde, for it is examyned goostli.
15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
But a spiritual man demeth alle thingis, and he is demed of no man.
16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
As it is writun, And who knew the wit of the Lord, or who tauyte hym? And we han the wit of Crist.
