Montgomery - I Corinthians - 2

2:1  And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim God’s great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy;

2:2  for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ.

2:3  In weakness and fear and great trembling came I among you.

2:4  My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power;

2:5  in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God.

2:6  Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.

2:7  No, it is God’s wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory.

2:8  None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

2:9  Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man’s heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him.

2:10  Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God.

2:11  For what man knows the depths of man except the man’s own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God.

2:12  But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

2:13  Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

2:14  The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God’s Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

2:15  But the spiritual man discerns everything, yet is himself discerned by no one.

2:16  For what man understands the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct Him?