1 Corinthians 2 - EasyEnglish Bible 2024（EASY）

Chapter 2Paul explains how he taught God's message

1Christian friends, I came to tell you God's true message. I did not use clever words when I spoke to you. I did not try to make you think that I was very wise.

2While I was with you, I decided to teach you only about Jesus Christ. I taught you about his death on a cross. That was the most important thing.

3I lived among you as someone who felt weak. I was very afraid.

4I was careful when I spoke to you and when I taught you God's message. I did not use clever words that seemed to be wise. Instead, the power of God's Holy Spirit showed you that my message was true.

5As a result, you now believe because of God's power. You do not believe because of human ideas.

6We do speak a message of wisdom to those of you who know Christ very well. But that wisdom does not belong to this world. It is not a message that the rulers of this world think is important. Those rulers will not be powerful for long.

7No, the wisdom that we speak about belongs to God. He has hidden it from people until now. But before God made the world, he decided he would let us know it. He wanted us to enjoy his glory.

8None of the rulers of this world understood God's wise plan. If they had understood, they would not have killed our great Lord Jesus on a cross.

9This is written in the Bible:

‘Nobody ever saw or heard anything about this.

Nobody ever thought that it could happen.

But these are the things that God has prepared for his people who love him.’ God's Holy Spirit shows us God's true message

10But God has sent his Spirit to show these secrets to us. God's Spirit looks carefully into everything. He even knows God's secret thoughts.

11Only a person's own spirit can know everything that is in his thoughts. And it is the same with God. Only God's Spirit knows everything that is in God's thoughts.

12We have received God's own Spirit, not a spirit that belongs to this world. As a result, we can understand all the good things that God has given to us.

13Those are the things that we speak about. We do not use clever words to speak a message that comes from human wisdom. Instead, we speak the message that God's Spirit has taught us. In this way, we explain a spiritual message to people who have God's Spirit.

14If someone does not believe in God, they cannot accept the message that comes from God's Spirit. They think that God's message is foolish. They cannot even understand these things. Only God's Spirit can explain them to people.

15But we have God's Spirit with us. So we can judge the true value of all things. But other people cannot truly understand us, who belong to God.

16As it says in the Bible:

‘Nobody can know what the Lord God is thinking.

Nobody can tell him what he should do.’

But we think about these things in the same way that Christ thinks.