1Co 1 Corinthians, chapter First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 2
Proclaiming Christ Crucified
When I came to you, brothers, I did not come proclaiming to you the 2:1 testimony 93.1% ¦ mystery NA WH 4.4%testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 1Co 1:17For I resolved to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1Co 1:23; 1Co 15:3; Php 3:8I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. Act 18:1And my word and my preaching were not with 2:4 persuasive words of human 66.9% ¦ persuasion by words of human MSS 11.1% ¦ persuasive human words of MSS 8.5% ¦ persuasive words of NA TH 3.9% • WH 0.6% ¦ the persuasion of SBL 0%persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 2Pe 1:16so that your faith would not be based on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.2Co 6:7
Spiritual Wisdom
Now we speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing. Jas 3:15On the contrary, we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God foreordained for our glory before time began. Rom 14:24; Eph 3:9None of the rulers of this age understood this wisdom, for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Mat 11:25; Act 13:27; 2Co 3:14But, as it is written,
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no heart has imagined
2:9 what ¦ all that SBL WHwhat God has prepared for those who love him.”
2:10 Now ¦ For SBL WHNow God has revealed these things to us through 2:10 his ¦ the CThis Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. Mat 13:11; Mrk 4:11; Jhn 14:26For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Rom 11:33Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might understand what God has freely given us. Rom 8:15We speak about this, not with words taught by human wisdom but with words taught by the 2:13 Holy ¦ --- CTHoly Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people.1Co 1:17
The natural man does not accept what comes from the Spirit of God, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it because it is spiritually discerned. Rom 8:5But he who is spiritual makes judgments about all things, and yet he himself is not subject to any man's judgment. “For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to advise him?” But we have the mind of Christ.Rom 11:34