Chapter 2

And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with pretentious speech or wisdom, announcing unto you the witness to Christ.

For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

And my speech and my preaching were not in the persuasive words of wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

that your faith might rest, not on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. True Wisdom

Wisdom however, we speak among those who are mature, yet not a wisdom of this world nor of the rulers of this world, who are passing away.

But we speak the wisdom of God, mysterious, hidden, which God foreordained before the world unto our glory,

a wisdom which none of the rulers of this world has known; for had they known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.

But, as it is written, "Eye has not seen nor ear heard, Nor has it entered into the heart of man, What things God has prepared for those who love him."

But to us God has revealed them through his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

For who among men knows the things of a man save the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, the things of God no one knows but the Spirit of God.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit that is from God, that we may know the things that have been given us by God.

These things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in the learning of the Spirit, combining spiritual with spiritual.

But the sensual man does not perceive the things that are of the Spirit of God, for it is foolishness to him and he cannot understand, because it is examined spiritually.

But the spiritual man judges all things, and he himself is judged by no man.

For "who has known the mind of the Lord, that he might instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.