CHAPTER 2
When I
came
to
you,
brothers,
I did not come
with
eloquence
or
wisdom
as I proclaimed
to you
the
testimony
about God.
My
message
and
my
preaching
were not
with
persuasive
words
of wisdom,
but
with
a demonstration
of the Spirit’s
power,
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.
No,
we speak of
the mysterious
and hidden
wisdom
of God,
which
He
destined
for
our
glory
before
time began.
None
of the
rulers
of this
age
understood
it.
For
if
they had,
they would not have crucified
the
Lord
of glory.
Rather,
as
it is written:
“No
eye
has seen,
no
ear
has heard,
no
heart
has imagined,
what
God
has prepared
for those who
love
Him.”
But
God
has revealed it
to us
by
the
Spirit.
The
Spirit
searches
all things,
even
the
deep things
of God.
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.
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.
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.
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.