1 CORINTHIANS 2 [†]And I, when I came to you, brothers, [1]  x did not come proclaiming to you  y the testimony [2] of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2For I decided to know nothing among you except  z Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3And  a I was with you  b in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of  c the Spirit and of power, 5[†]so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men [3] but  d in the power of God.

6[†]Yet among  e the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not  f a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,  g who are doomed to pass away. 7[†]But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God,  h which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8None of  i the rulers of this age understood this, for  j if they had, they would not have crucified  k the Lord of glory. 9But, as it is written,

 l “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,

nor the heart of man imagined,

what God has  m prepared  n for those who love him”—

10these things  o God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even  p the depths of God. 11[†]For who knows a person’s thoughts  q except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12[†]Now  r we have received not  s the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13[†]And we impart this  t in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit,  u interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. [4]

14The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are  v folly to him, and  w he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15The  x spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 y “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But  z we have the mind of Christ.