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1 Corinthians 2

Lexham English Bible LEB

1 And I, [when I] came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority 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 crucified.

3 And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,

4 and my speech and my preaching [were] not with the persuasiveness of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power,

5 in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,

7 but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory,

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

9 But just as it is written, "[Things] which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that<note: Some manuscripts have "which"> God has prepared for those who love him."<note: A quotation from Isa 64:4>

10 For to us God has revealed [them] through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all [things], even the depths of God.

11 For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,

13 [things] which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in [words] taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual [things] to spiritual [people].

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 understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

15 Now the spiritual [person] discerns all [things], but he himself is judged by no one.

16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

New International Version NIV

1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.

4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,

5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.

8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him—

10 these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,

16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”But we have the mind of Christ.