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.

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superiority of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God.

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

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Yeshua the Messiah, and him crucified.

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

When I was with you, I was weak and afraid and I shook.

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

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Ruach and of power,

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

that your faith would not rest on human wisdom, 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)

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature, but a wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are passing away. (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, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God determined in advance 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 rulers of this age has understood. For had they known it, 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 as it is written, No eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things which God has prepared for those who 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 revealed it through the Ruach. For the Ruach searches all things, even 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 person knows the things of a person except the spirit of the person that is in him? So also, no one knows the things of God except the Ruach 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 received, not the spirit of the world, but the Ruach which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by 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.

And we speak of these things, not with words taught by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Ruach, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

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.

Now the natural person does not receive the things of the Ruach of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by 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 will instruct him?" But we have the mind of Messiah.