1Co 1 Corinthians, chapter First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 2
When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 1Co 1:17For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1Co 1:23; 1Co 15:3; Php 3:8I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. Act 18:1My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 2Pe 1:16that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.2Co 6:7
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. Jas 3:15But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, Rom 16:25; Eph 3:9which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. Mat 11:25; Act 13:27; 2Co 3:14But as it is written,
“Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter into the heart of man,
these God has prepared for those who love him.”2:9 Isaiah 64:4Isa 64:4
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. Mat 13:11; Mrk 4:11; Jhn 14:26For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit. Rom 11:33But 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 by God. Rom 8:15We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 1Co 1:17Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Rom 8:5But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. Pro 28:5“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?”2:16 Isaiah 40:13 But we have Christ’s mind.Wis 9:13; Isa 40:13; Rom 11:34