The Latin Vulgate VUL
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 et ego cum venissem ad vos fratres veni non per sublimitatem sermonis aut sapientiae adnuntians vobis testimonium Christi
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When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.
2 non enim iudicavi scire me aliquid inter vos nisi Iesum Christum et hunc crucifixum
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For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 et ego in infirmitate et timore et tremore multo fui apud vos
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And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;
4 et sermo meus et praedicatio mea non in persuasibilibus sapientiae verbis sed in ostensione Spiritus et virtutis
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and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 ut fides vestra non sit in sapientia hominum sed in virtute Dei
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that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
6 sapientiam autem loquimur inter perfectos sapientiam vero non huius saeculi neque principum huius saeculi qui destruuntur
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Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
7 sed loquimur Dei sapientiam in mysterio quae abscondita est quam praedestinavit Deus ante saecula in gloriam nostram
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But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.
8 quam nemo principum huius saeculi cognovit si enim cognovissent numquam Dominum gloriae crucifixissent
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None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 sed sicut scriptum est quod oculus non vidit nec auris audivit nec in cor hominis ascendit quae praeparavit Deus his qui diligunt illum
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But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,"
10 nobis autem revelavit Deus per Spiritum suum Spiritus enim omnia scrutatur etiam profunda Dei
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God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
11 quis enim scit hominum quae sint hominis nisi spiritus hominis qui in ipso est ita et quae Dei sunt nemo cognovit nisi Spiritus Dei
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For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 nos autem non spiritum mundi accepimus sed Spiritum qui ex Deo est ut sciamus quae a Deo donata sunt nobis
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Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
13 quae et loquimur non in doctis humanae sapientiae verbis sed in doctrina Spiritus spiritalibus spiritalia conparantes
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And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
14 animalis autem homo non percipit ea quae sunt Spiritus Dei stultitia est enim illi et non potest intellegere quia spiritaliter examinatur
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The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15 spiritalis autem iudicat omnia et ipse a nemine iudicatur
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The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
16 quis enim cognovit sensum Domini qui instruat eum nos autem sensum Christi habemus
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"For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.