Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 2:1 (show verse)
I, therefore, brethren, when I came unto you, came, not with excellency of discourse or wisdom, declaring unto you the mystery of God;
1 Corinthians 2:2 (show verse)
For I had not determined to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, - and, him, as one who had been crucified!
1 Corinthians 2:3 (show verse)
I, therefore in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, came to be with you,
1 Corinthians 2:4 (show verse)
And, my discourse, and what I proclaimed, were not in suasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of Spirit and power:
1 Corinthians 2:5 (show verse)
In order that, your faith, might not be in men's wisdom, but in God's power.
1 Corinthians 2:6 (show verse)
Wisdom, however, we do speak, among the full-grown, - wisdom, indeed, not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are to come to nought;
1 Corinthians 2:7 (show verse)
But we speak, God's, wisdom, in a sacred secret, that hidden wisdom , which God marked out beforehand, before the ages, for our glory, -
1 Corinthians 2:8 (show verse)
Which, none of the rulers of this age had come to know, for, had they known, not, in that case, the Lord of the glory, would they have crucified!
1 Corinthians 2:9 (show verse)
But, even as it is written - The things which eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and upon the heart of man have not come up, - whatsoever things God hath prepared for them that love him,
1 Corinthians 2:10 (show verse)
Unto us, in fact, hath God revealed through the Spirit; for, the Spirit, into all things, maketh search, yea! the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:11 (show verse)
For who of men knoweth the things of a man, - save the spirit of the man that is in him? thus, even the things of God, hath no one come to know, save the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:12 (show verse)
But, as for us, - not the spirit of the world, have we received, but the Spirit which is of God, - that we might know the things which, by God, have been given in favour unto us: -
1 Corinthians 2:13 (show verse)
Which we also speak - not in words taught of human wisdom, but in such as are taught of the Spirit, by spiritual words, spiritual things, explaining.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (show verse)
But, a man of the soul, doth not welcome the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot get to know them, because, spiritually, are they examined;
1 Corinthians 2:15 (show verse)
But, the man of the spirit, on the one hand, examineth all things, but, on the other, he himself, by no one, is examined.
1 Corinthians 2:16 (show verse)
For who hath come to know the mind of the Lord, that shall instruct him? But, we, have, the mind of Christ.