chapter two

¹and I, brothers, coming to you (PL), did not come with high rhetoric or wisdom, you (PL) to proclaim the testimony of Hashem.

²because I have myself resolved nothing to know among you (PL), except Yehoshua the Moshiach, and him as hung up on the tree.

³and was with you (PL) in weakness and in fear and in great trembling.

⁴and this word my and my preaching have not been with persuasive words of wisdom, but with proof of Spirit and power,

⁵so that your faith shall not be in human wisdom, but in the power of Hashem.

⁶wisdom however speak we among the perfection, yet not the wisdom of world the this, also not of the rulers of the this one world, who become lost;

⁷but we speak the wisdom of Hashem in a mystery, the concealed (wisdom), which Hashem has from long ago predetermined for our glory sake;

⁸which anyone of the rulers of the this one world has it not known; because would they it yes known, would they not hung up on the tree the L-rd of glory;

⁹but as it stands written:

what eye has not seen,

and ear has not heard,

and it is not come on a man's heart,

this has Hashem prepared for the (ones), which have him love.

¹⁰to us however did Hashem it revealed through His Spirit; because the Spirit searches everything out, even the depths of Hashem.

¹¹because who among men knows what (is happening) in a man, if not the man's spirit in him? also so knows anyone not who it is in Hashem, except Hashem's Spirit.

¹²and we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit, which is from Hashem; so that we shall know, what it is us given become of Hashem.

¹³about this speak we also with words, which not human wisdom teaches, but which the Spirit the Holy teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual (words).

¹⁴the natural man however receives not on that (which comes) from Hashem's Spirit; because it is a foolishness for him; and he can it (at all) not understand because it must judged become in a spiritual way.

¹⁵the spiritual (man)—(man of the Spirit)—however judges everything, and is himself by anyone not judged.

¹⁶because who did know the Spirit of the L-rd (G-d), that he shall Him (something) teach? we however have the Spirit of the Moshiach. (Yeshayah 40, 13)