The Bible

1 Corinthians Chapter 2

¹When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

²For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus AnointedOne and him crucified.

³I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

⁴My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

⁷But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, ⁸which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹But as it is written, "Things which no eye saw, nor ear heard, which didn't enter into a human heart, these God has prepared for those who love him." ¹⁰But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

¹¹For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

¹²But we didn't receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

¹³We also speak these things, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

¹⁴Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

¹⁶"For who has known the mind of ForeverOne, that he should instruct him?" But we have the AnointedOne's mind.