1 Corinthians 2 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Paul’s Reliance upon the Spirit

1And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming to you the testimony of God, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom;

2for I made the decision to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

3I came to you in weakness and fear and great trembling.

4And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom and rhetoric of men, but on the power of God.

6Yet we do speak wisdom among those spiritually mature; but wisdom not of this present age nor of the rulers and leaders of this age, who are passing away;

7but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom once hidden which God predestined before the ages to our glory.

8None of the rulers of this age recognized and understood this wisdom; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

9but just as it is written,

“Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard,

And which have not entered the heart of man,

All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”

10For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

11For what person knows the thoughts and motives of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So also no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know and understand the things freely given to us by God.

13We also speak of these things, not in words taught or supplied by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

14But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated,.

15But the spiritual man judges all things, yet is himself judged by no one.

16For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.