Read 1 Corinthians 2

World English Bible · 16 verses

1. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. 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,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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