1 Corinthians 2 (NET)

1 Corinthians 2:1¹When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:2²For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:3³And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:4⁴My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:5⁵so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:6⁶Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:7⁷Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:8⁸None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:9⁹But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:10¹⁰God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:11¹¹For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:12¹²Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:13¹³And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:14¹⁴The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:15¹⁵The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

1 Corinthians 2:16¹⁶For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions