1 Corinthians 2

1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.

And I, when I came among you, brethren, came not with excellency of language, or of human wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God:

2 For I resolved to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

for I did not think it meet to know any thing 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 And my word and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

And my discourse, and my preaching was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

5 so that your faith would not be based on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Now we speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing. (aiōn g165)

Yet we speak true wisdom among the perfect: though not the wisdom of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought. (aiōn g165)

7 On the contrary, we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God foreordained for our glory before time began. (aiōn g165)

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God ordained before the worlds for our glory: (aiōn g165)

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

which none of the rulers of this age knew; 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, no ear has heard, and no heart has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”

But as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for those that love Him."

10 Now God has revealed these things to us through his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

But God hath revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.

11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

For who among men knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him? so also the things of God no one knoweth, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might understand what God has freely given us.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God; that we might know the things that are graciously bestowed upon us by God:

13 We speak about this, not with words taught by human wisdom but with words taught by the Holy Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people.

which we also speak of, not in words dictated by human wisdom, but in those which are dictated by the holy Spirit; explaining spiritual things by spiritual words.

14 The natural man does not accept what comes from the Spirit of God, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it because it is spiritually discerned.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he who is spiritual makes judgments about all things, and yet he himself is not subject to any man's judgment.

Whereas the spiritual man discerneth all things, yet is himself discerned by no one.

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

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