1 Corinthians 2:1-14 ▼

1 And I, having come to you?, brothers, did not come according to excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you? the testimony of God.

2 For I decided not to know anything among you? except Jesus Christ and Him having been crucified.

3 And I was with you? in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5 so that your? faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 But we speak wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery having been hidden away, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

8 which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it has been written: “What no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and has not gone up upon the heart of man—as much as God prepared for those loving Him.”

10 For God revealed it to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

11 For who of men knows the things of the man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also, no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God.

12 Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things having been graciously given to us by God,

13 which also we speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but in those taught of the Spirit, expressing spiritual things by spiritual means.

14 But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.