1 Paul’s Reliance upon the Spirit And when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with superiority of word or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the 2:1 Some early mss mystery witness of God.
2 For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,
4 and my word and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature, a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being abolished.
7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, thewisdomwhich has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages to our glory,
8 which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But just as it is written,“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard,Andwhichhave not entered the heart of man,All thatGod has prepared for those who loveHim.”
10 2:10Some early mss For But to us God revealedthemthrough the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
11 For who among men knows thedepthsof a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so thedepthsof God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know thedepthsgraciously given to us by God,
13 of whichdepthswe also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, 2:13Or interpreting spiritual things for spiritual men combining spiritualdepthswith spiritualwords.
14 But 2:14 Or an unspiritual a natural man does not accept thedepthsof the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined.
15 But he who is spiritual examines all things, yet he himself is examined by no one.
16 Forwho has known the mind of the 2:16In OT, Yahweh, cf. Is 40:13 Lord,that he will directHim? But we have the mind of Christ.