1 Corinthians 2

And I, brothers, having come to you, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God.

For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. \*

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

And my word and my proclamation {were} not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

so that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. \*

Now we speak wisdom among the mature, but not wisdom of this age nor of the rulers of this age, the ones passing away.

Instead, we speak the wisdom of God that has been hidden in a mystery that God predestined before the ages for our glory, \*

which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had understood {it}, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

But just as it is written, “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not arisen in the heart of man, these things God has prepared for the one loving him.” \*

For God revealed them to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man {that is} within him? So also, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. \*

But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, so that we might know the things freely given to us by God.

And we speak these things not in words taught by human wisdom but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual things with spiritual words. \*

But the natural person does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But the spiritual one discerns all things, but he himself is discerned by no one. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord—who will instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. \*