NRSV 1_Corinthians 2 Chapter
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2:1
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom.
2:2
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
2:3
And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
2:4
My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
2:5
so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
2:6
Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish.
2:7
But we speak God's wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
2:8
None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2:9
But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him"--
2:10
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
2:11
For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God's except the Spirit of God.
2:12
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
2:13
And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.
2:14
Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15
Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else's scrutiny.
2:16
"For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.