1 Corinthians 2
2
The Message about the Crucified Christ
1When I came to you, my brothers and sisters, to preach God's secret truth,#2.1 God's secret truth; some manuscripts have the testimony about God. I did not use big words and great learning. 2For while I was with you, I made up my mind to forget everything except Jesus Christ and especially his death on the cross. 3#Acts 18.9So when I came to you, I was weak and trembled all over with fear, 4and my teaching and message were not delivered with skilful words of human wisdom, but with convincing proof of the power of God's Spirit. 5Your faith, then, does not rest on human wisdom but on God's power.
God's Wisdom
6Yet I do proclaim a message of wisdom to those who are spiritually mature. But it is not the wisdom that belongs to this world or to the powers that rule this world — powers that are losing their power. 7The wisdom I proclaim is God's hidden wisdom, which he had already chosen for our glory even before the world was made. 8None of the rulers of this world knew this wisdom. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9#Is 64.4However, as the scripture says:
“What no one ever saw or heard,
what no one ever thought could happen,
is the very thing God prepared for those who love him.”
10But#2.10 But; some manuscripts have For. it was to us that God made known his secret by means of his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, even the hidden depths of God's purposes. 11It is only the spirit within people that knows all about them; in the same way, only God's Spirit knows all about God. 12We have not received this world's spirit; instead, we have received the Spirit sent by God, so that we may know all that God has given us.
13So then, we do not speak in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual truths to those who have the Spirit.#2.13 to those who have the Spirit; or with words given by the Spirit. 14Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such people really do not understand them; they are nonsense to them, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis. 15Whoever has the Spirit, however, is able to judge the value of everything, but no one is able to judge him. 16#Is 40.13 (LXX)As the scripture says:
“Who knows the mind of the Lord?
Who is able to give him advice?”
We, however, have the mind of Christ.
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Good News Bible. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.
1 Corinthians 2
2
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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