2:1   And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

2:2   For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

2:3  I stayed with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

2:4   and my message and my preaching did not come in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

2:5   so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

2:6  Yet we do speak wisdom among those who have matured; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who pass away;

2:7   but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

2:8  the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

2:9   but just as the scriptures stated, " THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD,AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM."

2:10   For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

2:11  For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which resides in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

2:12   Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

2:13   which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

2:14   But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they appear foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because one can only spiritually appraise them.

2:15   But he who has spiritual resources appraises all things, yet no one can appraise him.

2:16   For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.