< 1 Corinthians 2 >

1 And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.
AND I, when I came to you, brethren, came not with superior excellence of discourse or wisdom, preaching unto you the gospel of God.
2 For I did not judge [it well] to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;
And in weakness, and in fear, and in much timidity, was I among you.
4 and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power;
And my conversation and my preaching was not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with demonstration of the Spirit, and of power:
5 that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power.
that your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6 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)
But we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are destroying themselves: (aiōn g165)
7 But we speak God's wisdom in [a] mystery, that hidden [wisdom] which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: (aiōn g165)
but we speak the wisdom of God, which had been hid in mystery, which God predestined before the worlds were, for our glory: (aiōn g165)
8 which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; ) (aiōn g165)
which none of the rulers of this world have known: for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. (aiōn g165)
9 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,
But, as it is written, “The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and that have not entered into the heart of man, these hath God prepared for those who love him.”
10 but God has revealed to us by [his] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
But to us hath God revealed them by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth out all things, even the depths of God.
11 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.
For who among men knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? so also the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
12 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:
Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
13 which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual [things] by spiritual [means].
Which things also we speak, not in discourses framed by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit of God; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 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;
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are folly to him: and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 but the spiritual discerns all things, and he is discerned of no one.
But the spiritual man discerneth indeed all things, though himself is discernible by no man.
16 For who has known the mind of [the] Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? who will instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

< 1 Corinthians 2 >