1 Corinthians 2

Proclaiming Christ Crucified

1 # 1 Cor 1.17 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the testimony#2.1 Other ancient authorities read mystery of God to you with superior speech or wisdom. 2For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4#Rom 15.19; 1 Cor 4.20My speech and my proclamation were made not with persuasive words of wisdom#2.4 Other ancient authorities read the persuasiveness of wisdom but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

The True Wisdom of God

6 # 1 Cor 1.20, 28; Eph 4.13; Phil 3.15 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are being destroyed. 7But we speak God’s wisdom, a hidden mystery, which God decreed before the ages for our glory 8and which none of the rulers of this age understood, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9#Isa 64.4; 65.17But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,

nor the human heart conceived,

what God has prepared for those who love him”—

10 # Mt 16.17; Jn 14.26; Eph 3.3, 5 God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11#Prov 20.27; Jer 17.9For what human knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God’s except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. 13#1 Cor 1.17And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.#2.13 Or interpreting spiritual things spiritually or comparing spiritual things with spiritual

14 # 1 Cor 1.18; Jas 3.15 Those who are unspiritual#2.14 Or natural do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.

16 # Isa 40.13; Jn 15.15 “For who has known the mind of the Lord

so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

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