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.