1Co 1 CorinthiansI Cô-rinh, chapterchương First Epistle to the CorinthiansI Cô-rinh, chapterchương 2

Paul’s Reliance upon the Spirit

And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come as someone superior in (a)2:1 Lit speechspeaking ability or (b)2:1 Or clevernesswisdom, as I proclaimed to you the (c)2:1 One early ms mysterytestimony of God. 1Co 1:17For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. 1Co 1:23; 1Co 15:3; Php 3:8I also was with you in weakness and fear, and in great trembling, Act 18:1and my (d)2:4 Lit wordmessage and my preaching were not in persuasive words of (e)2:4 Or clevernesswisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 2Pe 1:16so that your faith would not (f)2:5 Lit berest on the (g)2:5 Or clevernesswisdom of mankind, but on the power of God.2Co 6:7

Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; Jas 3:15but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; Rom 16:25; Eph 3:9the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; Mat 11:25; Act 13:27; 2Co 3:14but just as it is written:

“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,

And which have not entered the human heart,

All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”Isa 64:4

(h)2:10 One early ms ButFor to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. Mat 13:11; Mrk 4:11; Jhn 14:26For who among people knows the thoughts of a person except the spirit of the person that is in him? So also the thoughts of God no one knows, except the Spirit of God. Rom 11:33Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. Rom 8:15We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, (i)2:13 Or interpreting spiritual things for spiritual peoplecombining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.1Co 1:17

But (j)2:14 Or an unspirituala natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. Rom 8:5But the one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is (k)2:15 Or judgeddiscerned by no one. Pro 28:5For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he will instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.Isa 40:13; Rom 11:34