1 Corinthians 2

Legacy Standard Bible

Paul’s Reliance upon the Spirit

2 And when I came to you, brothers, I ^(A)did not come with superiority of word or of wisdom, proclaiming to you ^(B)the ^[a]witness of God. ² For I determined to know nothing among you except ^(C)Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. ³ And I was with you in ^(D)weakness and in ^(E)fear and in much trembling, ⁴ and my word and my preaching were ^(F)not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of ^(G)the Spirit and of power, ⁵ so that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in ^(H)the power of God.

⁶ Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are ^(I)mature, a wisdom, however, not of ^(J)this age nor of the rulers of ^(K)this age, who are ^(L)being abolished. ⁷ But we speak God’s wisdom in a ^(M)mystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God ^(N)predestined before the ^(O)ages to our glory, ^8 (P)which none of the rulers of ^(Q)this age has understood; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified ^(R)the Lord of glory. ⁹ But just as it is written,

^10 [b](T)But to us God revealed them ^(U)through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the ^(V)depths of God. ¹¹ For who among men knows the depths of a man except the ^(W)spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the depths of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now we ^(X)have received, not the spirit of ^(Y)the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the depths graciously given to us by God, ¹³ of which depths we also speak, ^(Z)not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, ^[c]combining spiritual depths with spiritual words.

¹⁴ But ^[d]a ^(AA)natural man ^(AB)does not accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(AC)foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because ^(AD)they are spiritually examined. ¹⁵ But he who is ^(AE)spiritual examines all things, yet he himself is examined by no one. ¹⁶ For ^(AF)who has known the mind of the ^[e]Lord, that he will direct Him? But ^(AG)we have the mind of Christ.