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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"><title>1 Corinthians 2</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><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="/bmc//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="/1_corinthians/">1 Corinthians</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_corinthians/2.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_corinthians/2.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_corinthians/2.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_corinthians/2.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_corinthians/2.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_corinthians/2.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_corinthians/2.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Paul’s Message by the Spirit’s Power<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 did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Spiritual Wisdom<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../ephesians/1.htm#15">Ephesians 1:15–23</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> which He destined for our glory before time began. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Rather, as it is written: <p class="indent1stline">“No eye has seen, <p class="indent2"> no ear has heard, <p class="indent2"> no heart has imagined, <p class="indent1"> what God has prepared for those who love Him.”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. <p class="reg"> The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> But we have the mind of Christ.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <a href="../isaiah/64.htm#4">Isaiah 64:4</a><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>to spiritual people</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <a href="../isaiah/40.htm#13">Isaiah 40:13</a> (see also LXX)<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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