1 Corinthians 2
2
1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I didn’t come preaching God’s secrets to you like I was an expert in speech or wisdom. 2I had made up my mind not to think about anything while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and to preach him as crucified. 3I stood in front of you with weakness, fear, and a lot of shaking. 4My message and my preaching weren’t presented with convincing wise words but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 5I did this so that your faith might not depend on the wisdom of people but on the power of God.
Definition of wisdom
6What we say is wisdom to people who are mature. It isn’t a wisdom that comes from the present day or from today’s leaders who are being reduced to nothing. 7We talk about God’s wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began, for our glory. 8It is a wisdom that none of the present-day rulers have understood, because if they did understand it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory! 9But this is precisely what is written: “God has prepared things for those who love him that no eye has seen, or ear has heard, or that haven’t crossed the mind of any human being”.#2.9 Isa 64:4 10God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, including the depths of God. 11Who knows a person’s depths except their own spirit that lives in them? In the same way, no one has known the depths of God except God’s Spirit. 12We haven’t received the world’s spirit but God’s Spirit so that we can know the things given to us by God. 13These are the things we are talking about—not with words taught by human wisdom but with words taught by the Spirit—we are interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people. 14But people who are unspiritual don’t accept the things from God’s Spirit. They are foolishness to them and can’t be understood, because they can only be comprehended in a spiritual way. 15Spiritual people comprehend everything, but they themselves aren’t understood by anyone. 16“Who has known the mind of the Lord, who will advise him?”#2.16 Isa 40:13 But we have the mind of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 2
2
1Brothers and sisters, when I came to you I didn't try to impress you with wonderful words or great wisdom when I told you what God had to say to you. 2I decided that while I was with you I didn't want to concentrate on anything except Jesus Christ, and that he was crucified. 3I came to you in weakness, fearful and trembling. 4I didn't speak to you with persuasive words of wisdom to convince you. I just explained it all to you through the evidence and power of the Spirit. 5That way your trust in God wouldn't rely on human wisdom but on the power of God.
6However, we do use words of wisdom when we speak to those who are spiritually mature, but this isn't wisdom that comes from this world, or from the rulers of this world who soon fade from the scene. 7On the contrary we explain God's wisdom in terms of a revealed mystery#2:7. When the word mystery is used in the New Testament it is normally referring to a revealed mystery—particularly in reference to God becoming human in the person of Jesus Christ. that was previously hidden which God planned for our glory before the creation of the worlds.
8None of the rulers of this world understood anything about this—for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But as Scripture says, “No one has ever seen, and no one has ever heard, and no one has ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.”#2:9. From Isaiah 64 and Isaiah 65. 10But God has revealed this to us through the Spirit, because the Spirit delves into the depths of God. 11Who knows anyone's thoughts except the actual person?#2:11. Literally, “who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him?” In the same way no one knows God's thoughts except the Spirit of God. 12For we have received the Spirit from God, not the spirit of this world, so that we could understand what God so generously gave us. 13That's what we speak about—not using words taught by human wisdom, but what the Spirit teaches. We explain what is spiritual using spiritual terms. 14Of course people who are not spiritual don't accept what comes from God's Spirit. It's just foolish nonsense to them, and they can't understand it, because what is spiritual has to be properly examined. 15People who are spiritual investigate everything, but are not placed under investigation themselves.#2:15. “Investigate/investigation”—the same word is used in the original, and can also mean to examine or to judge. It is also related to the word translated “examined” in verse 14. English does not capture the subtlety of the original. 16For “who understands the Lord's mind, and would think to instruct him?”#2:16. Quoting Isaiah 40:13. But we do have Christ's mind!
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