1 Corinthians 2:1–12

Paul’s Reliance upon the Spirit

¹And when I came to you, brethren, I ^adid not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you ^bthe ¹testimony of God.

²For I determined to know nothing among you except ^aJesus Christ, and Him crucified.

³I was with you in ^aweakness and in ^bfear and in much trembling,

⁴and my ¹message and my preaching were ^anot in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of ^bthe Spirit and of power,

⁵so that your faith would not ¹rest on the wisdom of men, but on ^athe power of God.

⁶Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are ^amature; a wisdom, however, not of ^bthis age nor of the rulers of this age, who are ^cpassing away;

⁷but we speak God’s wisdom in a ^amystery, the hidden wisdom which God ^bpredestined before the ^cages to our glory;

⁸the wisdom ^awhich none of the rulers of ^bthis age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified ^cthe Lord of glory;

⁹but just as it is written,

“^aThings which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,

And which have not entered the heart of man,

All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

^101aFor to us God revealed them ^bthrough the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the ^cdepths of God.

¹¹For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the ^aspirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.

¹²Now we ^ahave received, not the spirit of ^bthe world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,