Chapter 2
1 When I came to you , brothers, I didn’ t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom , proclaiming to you the testimony of God .
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified .
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear , and in much trembling .
4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom , but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power ,
5 that your faith wouldn’ t stand in the wisdom of men , but in the power of God .
6 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 .
7 But we speak God ’s wisdom in a mystery , the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory ,
8 which none of the rulers of this world has known . For had they known it , they wouldn’ t have crucified the Lord of glory .
9 But 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 ."
10 But to us , God revealed them through the Spirit . For the Spirit searches all things , yes , the deep things of God .
11 For 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 .
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 by God .
13 We also speak these things , not in words which man ’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things .
14 Now 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.
15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things , and he himself is to be judged by no one .
16 " For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him ?" But we have Christ ’ s mind .