LO - I Corinthians - 2

2:1  Now, when I cam to you, brethren, I came not with excellency of speech, and of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.

2:2  For I determined to make known nothing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

2:3  And I, in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you.

2:4  My discourse, also, and my proclamation, were not with persuasive words of human wisdom; but with the demonstration of the Spirit, and of power.

2:5  That your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

2:6  However, we speak wisdom among the perfect: but not the wisdom of this world; neither of the rulers of this world, who are to be brought to nothing.

2:7  But we speak the mysterious wisdom of God, which has been till now concealed; which God declared before the time of the ages, should be spoken to our glory.

2:8  Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

2:9  For, as it is written, "Those things eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered, which God has prepared for them who love him."

2:10  But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

2:11  For who, of men, knows the thoughts of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him: so, also, the thoughts of God no man knows, but the Spirit of God.

2:12  Now, we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, that we might know the things which are gifted to us by God.

2:13  Which things, also, we speak, not in words, taught by human wisdom; but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things in spiritual words.

2:14  Now, an animal man receives not the thing of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually examined.

2:15  But the spiritual man examines, indeed, all things, yet he is examined by no one.

2:16  For what animal man has known the mind of the Lord, who will instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.