1 Corinthians 2
2
1Brothers and sisters, when I came to you, I didn’t speak about God’s mystery #2:1 Some manuscripts and translations read “testimony.” as if it were some kind of brilliant message or wisdom. 2While I was with you, I decided to deal with only one subject—Jesus Christ, who was crucified. 3When I came to you, I was weak. I was afraid and very nervous. 4I didn’t speak my message with persuasive intellectual arguments. I spoke my message with a show of spiritual power 5so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.
6However, we do use wisdom to speak to those who are mature. It is a wisdom that doesn’t belong to this world or to the rulers of this world who are in power today and gone tomorrow. 7We speak about the mystery of God’s wisdom. It is a wisdom that has been hidden, which God had planned for our glory before the world began. 8Not one of the rulers of this world has known it. If they had, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But as Scripture says:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
the things that God has prepared
for those who love him.”
10God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, especially the deep things of God. 11After all, who knows everything about a person except that person’s own spirit? In the same way, no one has known everything about God except God’s Spirit. 12Now, we didn’t receive the spirit that belongs to the world. Instead, we received the Spirit who comes from God so that we could know the things which God has freely given us. 13We don’t speak about these things using teachings that are based on intellectual arguments like people do. Instead, we use the Spirit’s teachings. We explain spiritual things to those who have the Spirit.#2:13 Or “We explain spiritual things in spiritual words.”
14A person who isn’t spiritual doesn’t accept the teachings of God’s Spirit. He thinks they’re nonsense. He can’t understand them because a person must be spiritual to evaluate them. 15Spiritual people evaluate everything but are subject to no one’s evaluation.
16“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so that he can teach him?”
However, 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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