1 Corinthians 2

1 Corinthians 2

The Wisdom of God in the Spirit

1When I came to y’all, siblings, I didn’t come with eloquent speech or wisdom, as I proclaimed to y’all the testimony of God.

2For I determined not to know anything among y’all except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3I was with y’all in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

4My words and my preaching were not persuasive words of human wisdom, but a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5so that y’all’s faith wouldn’t rest in human wisdom, but in the power of God.

6We speak wisdom, however, among those who are mature, a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

7Instead, we speak God’s wisdom, which had been hidden in a mystery and that God foreordained for our glory before all time.

8None of the rulers of this world understood. For if they had understood, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

9But as it is written,

“Things which no eye has seen, and no ear has heard,

and which didn’t enter into the human heart,

these things God has prepared for those who love him.”

10But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

11For who knows what is inside a human except the spirit of that human. Even so, no human knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

12Now what we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

13The things we say are not in words taught by human wisdom, but what is taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things with those who are spiritual.

14Now the natural human doesn’t accept the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to the natural person who can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15But the spiritual person discerns all things, yet is to be judged by no one.

16“For who has known the mind of the Lord [YHWH] that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.[#Isaiah 40:13]

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