1 Corinthians 2

¹[When] I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom [as] I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

²For I resolved to know nothing [while I was] with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

³I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

⁴My message and my preaching [were] not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of [the] Spirit’s power,

⁵so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

⁶Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom — but not [the] wisdom of this age [or] of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

⁷No, we speak of [the] mysterious [and] hidden wisdom of God, which [He] destined for our glory before time [began].

⁸None of the rulers of this age understood [it]. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

¹⁰But God has revealed [it] to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep [ things ] of God.

¹¹For who among men knows the [thoughts] of man except [his own] spirit within him? So too, no one knows the [thoughts] of God except the Spirit of God.

¹²We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

¹³And [this is] [what] we speak, not in words taught [us] by human wisdom, but in [words] taught by [the] Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual [words].

¹⁴[The] natural man {does} not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand [them], because {they are} spiritually discerned.

¹⁵The spiritual [man] judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.

¹⁶“For who has known [the] mind of [the] Lord, [so as] to instruct Him?” But we have [the] mind of Christ.