1 Corinthians 2
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1AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ.
2For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;
5That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought;
7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory:
8Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.
9But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.
10But to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God.
12Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God.
13Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined.
15But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man.
16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that we may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
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1 Corinthians 2
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1When I came to you, Achim b'Moshiach, I did not come preaching and announcing to you the sod Hashem (mystery of G-d) as a ba'al melitzot (rhetorician, fine talker) or in the excellence of chochmah.
2For I made the decision not to have da'as of anything among you except Moshiach and nivlato al haEtz#2:2 Dt 21:23 (his body — gufa, bar-minen — on the Boim [Yiddish for tree]).
3And I came to you#2:3 Ac 18:1 in weakness#2:3 1C 1:25,27 and in yir'at Shomayim and in fear and in much trembling I was with you,
4And my speech and my hachrazah (proclamation, kyrygma, preaching) to you of the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem was not in persuasive words but in the demonstration of the Ruach Hakodesh and the gevurat Hashem (power of G-d),#2:4 1C 1:17
5That the#2:5 orthodox Jewish emunah (faith) of you may not be in the [Olam Hazeh] “chochmah” of Bnei Adam, but in the gevurat Hashem.#2:5 1:17
6But we do speak chochmah (wisdom) to the man who is mevugar (mature, grown up), to those with mature ruchaniyut (spirituality in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), yet, it is a chochmah (wisdom) not of the Olam Hazeh, neither of the rulers of the Olam Hazeh,#2:6 Ro 13:3 the ones being brought to naught.#2:6 Ps 146:4
7But we speak the chochmah of Hashem in a hidden sod (mystery),#2:7 1C 2:1 which was nigzar merosh (determined from the beginning, preordained, predestined, decided beforehand) by Hashem lifnei yemei haOlam (before the days of eternity) for our kavod (glory);#2:7 Ro 8:29-30
8A chochmah which not one of the rulers of the Olam Hazeh has known, for, if they had had da'as, they would not have made talui al HaEtz HaKelalat Hashem#2:8 Dt 21:23 (being hanged on the Tree of the Curse of G-d) the#2:8 Moshiach Adon HaKavod.#2:8 Ps 24:7
9But even as it has been written, Things which no eye has seen and LO SHAMU (they had not heard) nor did it come up into the heart of Bnei Adam, the things G-d prepared for the ones who have ahavah for him.#2:9 Isa 64:4 [3]; TARGUM HASHIVIM; Isa 52:15
10But Hashem has made the hitgalut haSod (the revelation of the mystery) to us of these things through the Ruach Hakodesh; for the Ruach Hakodesh searches all things, even the deep things of G-d.
11For who of Bnei Adam has da'as of the things of Bnei Adam except the ruach of a man in him? So also the things of G-d no one has known except the Ruach Hashem.#2:11 Jer 17:9; Prov 20:27
12Now we have not received the ruach of the Olam Hazeh but the Ruach Hakodesh from Hashem, that we may have da'as of the things having been freely given to us by Hashem,
13Which things also we speak, not in devarim (words) taught by chochmah haBnei Adam, but in devarim taught by the Ruach Hakodesh, making midrash#2:13 exposition, interpretation of the things of the Ruach Hakodesh#2:13 1C 2:12 by means of the words of the Ruach Hakodesh.
14But a natural person does not receive the things of the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem, for they are narrishkait (foolishness)#2:14 1C 1:21-24 to him, and he is not able to have personal saving da'as of them, because they are discerned in the Ruach Hakodesh.
15Now the man of the Ruach Hakodesh discerns all things, but, by no one is he discerned.
16For, “Who has known the mind of Hashem so as to instruct Him?”#2:16 Isa 40:13 TARGUM HASHIVIM But we have the mind of Moshiach.
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