1 Corinthians 2
2
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
2
Paul’s Proclamation
1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery#2:1 Other mss read testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance#1Tm 2:2 of speech#Col 4:6 or wisdom. 2I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.#1Co 1:23–24; Gl 6:14 3I came to you in weakness,#2Co 11:30 in fear,#Rv 11:11 and in much trembling.#Php 2:12 4My speech#Mt 12:37 and my preaching were not with persuasive#Php 1:25 words of wisdom#2:4 Other mss read human wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.#Mk 5:30; Lk 1:35; 6:19; Ac 19:11; 2Co 13:4; 2Tm 1:7; Rv 11:17
Spiritual Wisdom
6We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,#Mt 5:48 but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers#Lk 12:58 of this age, who are coming to nothing.#Heb 2:14 7On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined#Eph 1:5 before the ages for our glory.#Lk 24:26; 1Pt 5:1,4 8None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.#Ps 24:7 9But as it is written,
What no eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no human heart has conceived —
God has prepared these things for those who love him. # 2:9 Is 52:15; 64:4 #
Is 52:15; 64:4; Lk 10:27; 1Jn 4:20
10Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything,#Ps 17:3; Jn 14:26 even the depths of God.#Rm 8:39; 11:33; Eph 3:18 11For who knows a person’s thoughts#2:11 Or things except his spirit#Rm 1:9 within him? In the same way, no one knows#1Jn 4:8 the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. 13We also speak these things, not in words#Mt 12:37 taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.#2:13 Or things with spiritual words 14But the person without the Spirit#2:14 Lit natural person does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated#2:14 Or judged, or discerned, also in v. 15 spiritually. 15The spiritual person, however, can evaluate#2:15 Or judge, or discern everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16For
who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct him? # 2:16 Is 40:13 #
Is 40:13
But we have the mind of Christ.#Col 2:2
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