Prima lettera ai Corinzi 2

NOVA VULGATA	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Et ego, cum venissem ad vos,fratres, veni non per sublimita tem sermonis aut sapientiae annuntians vobismysterium Dei.	1 When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.
2 Non enim iudicavi scire me aliquid inter vos nisi IesumChristum et hunc crucifixum.	2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3 Et ego in infirmitate et timore et tremore multofui apud vos,	3 I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,
4 et sermo meus et praedicatio mea non in persuasibilibussapientiae verbis sed in ostensione Spiritus et virtutis,	4 and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power,
5 ut fides vestra nonsit in sapientia hominum sed in virtute Dei.	5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
6 Sapientiam autem loquimur inter perfectos, sapientiam vero non huius saeculineque principum huius saeculi, qui destruuntur,	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 sed loquimur Dei sapientiam inmysterio, quae abscondita est, quam praedestinavit Deus ante saecula in gloriamnostram,	7 Rather, we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,
8 quam nemo principum huius saeculi cognovit; si enim cognovissent,numquam Dominum gloriae crucifixissent.	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 Sed sicut scriptum est: “ Quodoculus non vidit, nec auris audivit, nec in cor hominis ascendit, quaepraeparavit Deus his, qui diligunt illum ”.	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 Nobis autem revelavit Deus per Spiritum; Spiritus enim omnia scrutatur, etiamprofunda Dei.	10 this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.
11 Quis enim scit hominum, quae sint hominis, nisi spiritushominis, qui in ipso est? Ita et, quae Dei sunt, nemo cognovit nisi SpiritusDei.	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 Nos autem non spiritum mundi accepimus, sed Spiritum, qui ex Deo est, utsciamus, quae a Deo donata sunt nobis;	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 quae et loquimur non in doctis humanaesapientiae sed in doctis Spiritus verbis, spiritalibus spiritalia comparantes.	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 Animalis autem homo non percipit, quae sunt Spiritus Dei, stultitia enim suntilli, et non potest intellegere, quia spiritaliter examinantur;	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 spiritalisautem iudicat omnia, et ipse a nemine iudicatur.	15 The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone.
16 Quis enim cognovit sensum Domini, qui instruat eum? Nos autem sensum Christi habemus.	16 For "who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?" But we have the mind of Christ.