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, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.

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

For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but 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 speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;

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

That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

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)

Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that 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 the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto 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 world knew; for if they had known it, they would never 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, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath 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 to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things 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 what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but 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.

Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from 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 things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

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 sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.

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

But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man.

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

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that we may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.