1 Corinthians 2
2
Paul’s Proclamation
1When I came to you, brothers and sisters, announcing the mystery#2:1 Other mss read testimony of God to you, I did not come with brilliance#1Tm 2:2 of speech#Col 4:6 or wisdom. 2I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.#1Co 1:23–24; Gl 6:14 3I came to you in weakness,#2Co 11:30 in fear,#Rv 11:11 and in much trembling.#Php 2:12 4My speech#Mt 12:37 and my preaching were not with persuasive#Php 1:25 words of wisdom#2:4 Other mss read human wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith might not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.#Mk 5:30; Lk 1:35; 6:19; Ac 19:11; 2Co 13:4; 2Tm 1:7; Rv 11:17
Spiritual Wisdom
6We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,#Mt 5:48 but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers#Lk 12:58 of this age, who are coming to nothing.#Heb 2:14 7On the contrary, we speak God’s hidden wisdom in a mystery, a wisdom God predestined#Eph 1:5 before the ages for our glory.#Lk 24:26; 1Pt 5:1,4 8None of the rulers of this age knew this wisdom, because if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.#Ps 24:7 9But as it is written,
What no eye has seen, no ear has heard,
and no human heart has conceived —
God has prepared these things for those who love him. # 2:9 Is 52:15; 64:4 #
Is 52:15; 64:4; Lk 10:27; 1Jn 4:20
10Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, since the Spirit searches everything,#Ps 17:3; Jn 14:26 even the depths of God.#Rm 8:39; 11:33; Eph 3:18 11For who knows a person’s thoughts#2:11 Or things except his spirit#Rm 1:9 within him? In the same way, no one knows#1Jn 4:8 the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we may understand what has been freely given to us by God. 13We also speak these things, not in words#Mt 12:37 taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.#2:13 Or things with spiritual words 14But the person without the Spirit#2:14 Lit natural person does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated#2:14 Or judged, or discerned, also in v. 15 spiritually. 15The spiritual person, however, can evaluate#2:15 Or judge, or discern everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16For
who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct him? # 2:16 Is 40:13 #
Is 40:13
But we have the mind of Christ.#Col 2:2
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1 Corinthians 2
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Paul’s Reliance upon the Spirit
1And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, proclaiming to you the #One early ms reads mystery.testimony of God [concerning salvation through Christ], I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom [no lofty words of eloquence or of philosophy as a Greek orator might do]; 2for I made the decision to #In reality, Paul was a highly-trained student of the Old Testament writings, Jewish law, and of logic and rhetoric; and evidently he was conversant in Roman law as well. When preaching the gospel, however, he focused on the message itself and the power of God, and not on rhetorical techniques of persuasion (see vv 4, 5; cf 1:17).know nothing [that is, to forego philosophical or theological discussions regarding inconsequential things and opinions while] among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified [and the meaning of His redemptive, substitutionary death and His resurrection]. 3I came to you in [a state of] weakness and fear and great trembling. 4And my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom [using clever rhetoric], but [they were delivered] in demonstration of the [Holy] Spirit [operating through me] and of [His] power [stirring the minds of the listeners and persuading them], 5so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom and rhetoric of men, but on the power of God.
6Yet we do speak wisdom among those spiritually mature [believers who have teachable hearts and a greater understanding]; but [it is a higher] wisdom not [the wisdom] of this present age nor of the rulers and leaders of this age, who are passing away; 7but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom once hidden [from man, but now revealed to us by God, that wisdom] which God predestined before the ages to our glory [to lift us into the glory of His presence]. 8None of the rulers of this age recognized and understood this wisdom; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; 9but just as it is written [in Scripture],
“Things which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard,
And which have not entered the heart of man,
All that God has prepared for those who love Him [who hold Him in affectionate reverence, who obey Him, and who gratefully recognize the benefits that He has bestowed].”
10For God has unveiled them and revealed them to us through the [Holy] Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things [diligently], even [sounding and measuring] the [profound] depths of God [the divine counsels and things far beyond human understanding]. 11For what person knows the thoughts and motives of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So also no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the [Holy] Spirit who is from God, so that we may know and understand the [wonderful] things freely given to us by God. 13We also speak of these things, not in words taught or supplied by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining and interpreting spiritual thoughts with spiritual words [for those being guided by the Holy Spirit].
14But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters]. 15But the spiritual man [the spiritually mature Christian] judges all things [questions, examines and applies what the Holy Spirit reveals], yet is himself judged by no one [the unbeliever cannot judge and understand the believer’s spiritual nature]. 16For who has known the mind and purposes of the Lord, so as to instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ [to be guided by His thoughts and purposes].
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