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 was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, |
2:4 and my message and my preaching were not 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 are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing 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 it is written, "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 is 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 who is 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 are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. |
2:15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. |
2:16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ. |