1 Corinthians 2

1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superiority of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery 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 determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.

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

And in weakness, and in fear, and in much timidity, was I among you.

4 My speech and my preaching were 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 would not rest on human wisdom, but on the power of God.

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

6 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)

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, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God determined in advance 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 rulers of this age has understood. For had they known it, 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 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.

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 to us God revealed it through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things 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 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 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 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.

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

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 Now the natural person does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand 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 he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by 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 will 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.