1 Corinthians 2

1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming to you the mystery of God with superior eloquence or wisdom.

2For I decided to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.

4My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5so that your faith would not rest on human wisdom but on the power of God.

6Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

7No, we speak God’s wisdom, hidden in a mystery, which God destined before the ages for our glory.

8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9But as it is written, “What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

10these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

11For who among human beings knows a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit within? In the same way, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

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

13And we speak of these things, not in words taught by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things with spiritual words.

14The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to such a person, who cannot understand them, because they are evaluated spiritually.

15The spiritual person evaluates all things, but is himself evaluated by no one.

16For “who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.