1Cor 2:5-16 | ESV | STEP | so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God .

1 Corinthians 2:5-16

5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men ^{▼▼The Greek word anthropoi can refer to both men and women} but ^bin the power of God.

Wisdom from the Spirit

6 Yet among ^cthe mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not ^da wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, ^ewho are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, ^fwhich God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of ^gthe rulers of this age understood this, for ^hif they had, they would not have crucified ⁱthe Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,

^j“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has ^kprepared ^lfor those who love him”—
10 these things ^mGod has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even ⁿthe depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts ^oexcept the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now ^pwe have received not ^qthe spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this ^rin words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, ^sinterpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. ^{▼▼Or interpreting spiritual truths in spiritual language, or comparing spiritual things with spiritual}

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^ufolly to him, and ^vhe is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The ^wspiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 ^x“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But ^ywe have the mind of Christ.