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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>1 Corinthians 2 WEB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_corinthians/2.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_corinthians/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">WEB</a> > 1 Corinthians 2</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_corinthians/1.htm" title="1 Corinthians 1">◄</a> 1 Corinthians 2 <a href="../1_corinthians/3.htm" title="1 Corinthians 3">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">World English Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/kjv/heb/1_corinthians/2.shtml"> [Par] </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Paul's Message, the Spirit's Power</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. </p> <p class="hdg">Wisdom from the Spirit of God</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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