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 <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1">Paul&#8217;s Proclamation</div><div class="m"> 1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery&#160; # 2:1 Other mss read testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance&#160; # 2:1 1Tm 2:2 of speech&#160; # 2:1 Col 4:6 or wisdom. 2I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.&#160; # 2:2 1Co 1:23&#8211;24; Gl 6:14 3I came to you in weakness,&#160; # 2:3 2Co 11:30 in fear,&#160; # 2:3 Rv 11:11 and in much trembling.&#160; # 2:3 Php 2:12 4My speech&#160; # 2:4 Mt 12:37 and my preaching were not with persuasive&#160; # 2:4 Php 1:25 words of wisdom&#160; # 2:4 Other mss read human wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit&#8217;s power, 5so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God&#8217;s power.&#160; # 2:5 Mk 5:30; Lk 1:35; 6:19; Ac 19:11; 2Co 13:4; 2Tm 1:7; Rv 11:17</div><div class="s1">Spiritual Wisdom</div><div class="m"> 6We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,&#160; # 2:6 Mt 5:48 but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers&#160; # 2:6 Lk 12:58 of this age, who are coming to nothing.&#160; # 2:6 Heb 2:14 7On the contrary, we speak God&#8217;s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined&#160; # 2:7 Eph 1:5 before the ages for our glory.&#160; # 2:7 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.&#160; # 2:8 Ps 24:7 9But as it is written,</div><div class="qc"> What no eye has&#160;seen, no ear has&#160;heard,</div><div class="qc"> and no human heart has&#160;conceived&#160;&#8212;</div><div class="qc"> God has prepared these things for&#160;those who&#160;love&#160;him. &#160; # 2:9 Is 52:15; 64:4,# 2:9 Is 52:15; 64:4; Lk 10:27; 1Jn 4:20</div><div class="m"> 10Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything,&#160; # 2:10 Ps 17:3; Jn 14:26 even the depths of God.&#160; # 2:10 Rm 8:39; 11:33; Eph 3:18 11For who knows a person&#8217;s thoughts&#160; # 2:11 Or things except his spirit&#160; # 2:11 Rm 1:9 within him? In the same way, no one knows&#160; # 2:11 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&#160; # 2:13 Mt 12:37 taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.&#160; # 2:13 Or things with spiritual words 14But the person without the Spirit&#160; # 2:14 Lit natural person does not receive what comes from God&#8217;s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated&#160; # 2:14 Or judged, or discerned, also in v.&#160;15 spiritually. 15The spiritual person, however, can evaluate&#160; # 2:15 Or judge, or discern everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16For</div><div class="qc"> who has known the&#160;Lord&#8217;s&#160;mind,</div><div class="qc"> that he may&#160;instruct&#160;him? &#160; # 2:16 Is 40:13,# 2:16 Is 40:13</div><div class="m">But we have the mind of Christ.&#160; # 2:16 Col 2:2</div>
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When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery  of God to you, I did not come with brilliance  of speech  or wisdom. I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  I came to you in weakness,  in fear,  and in much trembling.  My speech  and my preaching were not with persuasive  words of wisdom  but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power. 

We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,  but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers  of this age, who are coming to nothing.  On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined  before the ages for our glory.  None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.  But 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.   ,
Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything,  even the depths of God.  For who knows a person’s thoughts  except his spirit  within him? In the same way, no one knows  the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now 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. We also speak these things, not in words  taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.  But the person without the Spirit  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  spiritually. The spiritual person, however, can evaluate  everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. For
who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct him?   ,
But we have the mind of Christ.

Ascultă 1 Corinthians 2