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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:171 Cor 2:131 Cor 2:4Exod 4:101 John 5:11-132 Tim 1:8Rom 16:182 Cor 11:62 Thess 1:10Jer 1:6-7

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:141 Cor 1:22-25John 17:3Phil 3:8-10Gal 3:1

1 Corinthians 2:3³And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 13:41 Cor 4:10-132 Cor 12:5-102 Cor 13:92 Cor 10:102 Cor 4:12 Cor 4:162 Cor 4:7-122 Cor 6:4Gal 4:13-14

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:201 Thess 1:51 Cor 1:171 Cor 2:1Rom 15:192 Pet 1:161 Cor 2:13Col 2:41 Pet 1:122 Pet 2:18

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:72 Cor 12:92 Cor 6:71 Cor 1:171 Cor 3:6Acts 16:14

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 5:14Jas 3:152 Cor 4:41 Cor 1:18-201 Cor 1:281 Cor 2:81 Pet 5:10Col 4:12Eph 2:2Eph 4:11-13

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 1:26-272 Pet 1:3Rom 16:25-26Matt 11:25Matt 13:35Ps 78:21 Pet 5:10Eph 3:4-9Eph 1:42 Tim 1:9

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:27Jas 2:11 Cor 2:6Acts 7:21 Cor 1:26-281 Tim 1:132 Cor 3:14Acts 3:16-17John 15:22-25John 16:3

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 64:4Ps 31:19Jas 1:12Rom 8:28Isa 65:17Jas 2:5Heb 11:16Matt 25:341 John 4:19John 3:16

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 14:26Eph 3:5Luke 10:21John 16:13Eph 3:3Gal 1:12Matt 13:11Matt 16:17Rom 11:33-361 Cor 2:11

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 20:271 Cor 2:10Jer 17:9Prov 14:10Rom 11:33-34Prov 20:5

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:27Rom 8:5-61 John 2:201 John 5:19-201 John 4:4-5John 16:14-15Rom 8:15-162 Cor 4:4Rom 8:1Rom 8:32

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:141 Cor 2:41 Cor 1:171 Cor 12:1-31 Cor 2:1Col 3:161 Pet 1:121 Cor 10:3-51 Cor 14:21 Cor 9:11

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:18Rom 8:5-8Matt 13:11-172 Cor 4:4-61 John 2:271 Cor 15:46Jude 1:19Jas 3:15John 6:44-451 Cor 2:12

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:21Heb 5:14Prov 28:51 John 4:11 Cor 14:37Gal 6:1Eph 4:13-14Phil 1:101 Cor 3:1Col 1:9

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 VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 40:13-14Rom 11:34John 16:13-16John 15:15Job 15:8Jer 23:18Eph 3:3-4Job 40:2John 17:6-8Job 22:2