1 Corinthians 2
2
My Message: Jesus Christ on the Cross
1Dear brothers and sisters, when I came to you, I told you the secret truth of God. But I did not use fancy words or great wisdom. 2I decided that while I was with you I would forget about everything except Jesus Christ and his death on the cross. 3When I came to you, I was weak and shook with fear. 4My teaching and my speaking were not with wise words that persuade people. But the proof of my teaching was the power that the Spirit gives. 5I did this so that your faith would be in God’s power, not in human wisdom.
God’s Wisdom
6We teach wisdom to people who are mature, but the wisdom we teach is not from this world. It is not the wisdom of the rulers of this world, who are losing their power. 7But we speak God’s secret wisdom that has been hidden from everyone until now. God planned this wisdom for our glory. He planned it before the world began. 8None of the rulers of this world understood this wisdom. If they had understood it, they would not have killed our great and glorious Lord on a cross. 9But as the Scriptures say,
“No one has ever seen,
no one has ever heard,
no one has ever imagined
what God has prepared for those who love him.” Isaiah 64:4
10But God has shown us these things through the Spirit.
The Spirit knows all things. The Spirit even knows the deep secrets of God. 11It is like this: No one knows the thoughts that another person has. Only the person’s spirit that lives inside knows those thoughts. It is the same with God. No one knows God’s thoughts except God’s Spirit. 12We received the Spirit that is from God, not the spirit of the world. We received God’s Spirit so that we can know all that God has given us.
13When we say this, we don’t use words taught to us by human wisdom. We use words taught to us by the Spirit. We use the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. 14People who do not have God’s Spirit do not accept the things that come from his Spirit. They think these things are foolish. They cannot understand them, because they can only be understood with the Spirit’s help. 15We who have the Spirit are able to make judgments about all these things. But anyone without the Spirit is not able to make proper judgments about us. 16As the Scriptures say,
“Who can know what is on the Lord’s mind?
Who is able to give him advice?” Isaiah 40:13
But we have been given Christ’s way of thinking.
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1 Corinthians 2
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Proclaiming Christ Crucified
1#1Co 1:17; 2:4Brothers, when I came to you, I did not come with superiority of speech or wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. 2#Gal 6:14For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3#2Co 13:4I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4#Ro 15:19; 1Co 4:20My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5#2Co 4:7; 6:7so that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
The Revelation by God’s Spirit
6#1Co 1:28; Heb 5:14Yet we speak wisdom among those who are mature, although not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7#Ro 16:25–26; 2Ti 1:9But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the ages for our glory. 8#Ac 7:2; Jas 2:1None of the rulers of this age knew it. For had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9#Isa 64:4; Mt 25:34But as it is written,
“Eye has not seen,
nor ear heard,
nor has it entered into the heart of man
the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”#Isa 64:4.
10#Jn 14:26; Eph 3:3But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit.
For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11#Pr 20:27; Jer 17:9For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? Likewise, no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, so that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. 13#1Co 1:17; 2:4These things also we proclaim, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14#1Co 1:18; Jude 1:19But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15#1Co 3:1; 14:37But he who is spiritual judges all things. Yet he himself is not judged by anyone. 16#Jn 15:15; Ro 11:34 For
“who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct Him?”#Isa 40:13.
But we have the mind of Christ.
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