The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Corinthians 02
1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t
come with excellence of speech or of
wisdom, proclaiming to you the
testimony of God.
2 For I determined not to know anything
among you except Jesus Christ and him
crucified.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and
in much trembling.
4 My speech and my preaching were not
in persuasive words of human wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
power,
5 that your faith wouldn’t stand in the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 We 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.
7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery,
the wisdom that has been hidden,
which God foreordained before the worlds
for our glory,
8 which none of the rulers of this world
has known. For had they known it, they
wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 But as it is written, “Things which
aneye didn’t see, and anear didn’t hear,
which didn’t enter into the heart of
man, these God has prepared for those who
love him.”*
10 But to us, God revealed them through
the Spirit. For the Spirit searches allthings,
yes, the deep things of God.
11 For who among men knows the things
of a man exceptthe spirit ofthe man which
is inhim? Evenso, no one knows the things
of God except God’s Spirit.
12 But we received not 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.
13 We also speak these things, not in
words which man’s wisdom teaches but
which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing
spiritual things with spiritual things.
14 Now 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.
15 But he who is spiritual discerns all
things, and he himselfis to be judged by no
one.
16 “For who has known the mind of the
Lord that he should instruct him?” * But
we have Christ’s mind.