1 Corinthians 2
1 And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or
of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him
crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of
God.
6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of
this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, [even] the [wisdom] that hath been
hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:
8 which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they
would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
9 but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which]
entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that
love him.
10 But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth
all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man,
which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from
God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but
which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual [words] .
14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they
are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually
judged.
15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no
man.
16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ.