1 Corinthians 2
Paul’s Reliance upon the Spirit
1 And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I adid not come as someone superior in ▼▼Lit speech
speaking ability or ▼▼Or cleverness
wisdom, as I proclaimed to you dthe ▼▼One early ms mystery
testimony of God. 2For I determined to know nothing among you except fJesus Christ, and Him crucified. 3I also was with you in gweakness and hfear, and in great trembling, 4and my ▼▼Lit word
message and my preaching were jnot in persuasive words of ▼▼Or cleverness
wisdom, but in demonstration of lthe Spirit and of power, 5so that your faith would not ▼▼Lit be
rest on the ▼▼Or cleverness
wisdom of mankind, but on othe power of God. 6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are pmature; a wisdom, however, not of qthis age nor of the rulers of rthis age, who are spassing away; 7but we speak God’s wisdom in a tmystery, the hidden wisdom which God upredestined before the vages to our glory; 8the wisdom wwhich none of the rulers of xthis age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified ythe Lord of glory; 9but just as it is written: “ zThings which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,
And which have not entered the human heart,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 ▼
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abFor to us God revealed them acthrough the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the addepths of God. 11For who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the aespirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. 12Now we afhave not received the spirit of agthe world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. 13We also speak these things, ahnot in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ▼▼Or interpreting spiritual things for spiritual people
combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. 14 But ▼▼Or an unspiritual
a aknatural person aldoes not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are amfoolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15But the one who is anspiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is ▼▼Or judged
discerned by no one. 16For apwho has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But aqwe have the mind of Christ.
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