1 Corinthians 2

Christ Crucified

2And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the ¹testimony of God. ²For I determined not to know anything among you ^aexcept Jesus Christ and Him crucified. ^3bI was with you ^cin weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴And my speech and my preaching ^dwere not with persuasive words of ²human wisdom, ^ebut in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the ^fpower of God.

Spiritual Wisdom

⁶However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. ⁷But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ³ordained before the ages for our glory, ⁸which none of the rulers of this age knew; for ^ghad they known, they would not have ^hcrucified the Lord of glory.

⁹But as it is written:

ⁱ“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

¹⁰But ^jGod has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. ¹¹For what man knows the things of a man except the ^kspirit of the man which is in him? ^lEven so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but ^mthe Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

¹³These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the ⁴Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ¹⁴ⁿBut the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. ¹⁶For ^o“who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” ^pBut we have the mind of Christ.