1 Corinthians

2 I therefore, brethren, when I came unto you, Came not with excellency of discourse or wisdom Declaring unto you the mystery of God;

2 For I had not determined to know anything among you Save Jesus Christ,—and him as one who had been crucified!

3 I therefore in weakness and in fear and in much trembling Came to be with you,

4 And my discourse and what I proclaimed Were not in suasive words of wisdom, But in demonstration of Spirit and power:

5 In order that your faith might not be In men’s wisdom But in God’s power.

6 Wisdom however we do speak among the full-grown,—Wisdom indeed Not of this age, Nor of the rulers of this age who are to come to nought;

7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a sacred secret, That hidden [wisdom] Which God marked out beforehand, before the ages for our glory,—

8 Which none of the rulers of this age had come to know, For had they known, not in that case the Lord of the glory would they have crucified!

9 But even as it is written—The things which eye hath not seen and ear hath not heard, And upon the heart of man have not come up,—Whatsoever things God hath prepared for them that love him

10 Unto us in fact hath God revealed through the Spirit; For the Spirit into all things maketh search Yea! the deep things of God.

11 For who of men knoweth the things of a man,—Save the spirit of the man that is in him? Thus even the things of God hath no one come to know Save the Spirit of God.

12 But as for us—Not the spirit of the world have we received, But the Spirit which is of God,—That we might know the things which by God have been given in favour unto us:—

13 Which we also speak—Not in words taught of human wisdom, But in such as are taught of [the] Spirit By spiritual words spiritual things explaining.

14 But a man of the soul doth not welcome the things of the Spirit of God, For they are foolishness unto him and he cannot get to know them Because spiritually are they examined;

15 But the man of the spirit On the one hand examineth all things, But on the other he himself by no one is examined.

16 For who hath come to know the mind of the Lord that shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.