1 Corinthians 2

¹ When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.

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

³ I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,

⁴ and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power,

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

⁶ Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away.

⁷ Rather, we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,

⁸ and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹ But as it is written: "What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,"

¹⁰ this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.

¹¹ Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.

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

¹³ And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms.

¹⁴ Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually.

¹⁵ The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone.

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