1 Corinthians 2

1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

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

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

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

3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

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

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

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

5 so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

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

6 Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. (aiōn g165)

But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought. (aiōn g165)

7 No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. (aiōn g165)

But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: (aiōn g165)

8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (aiōn g165)

which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; ) (aiōn g165)

9 Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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,

10 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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

11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

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.

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

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:

13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

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

14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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;

15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.

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

16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

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