Sept. 6
1 Corinthians 2
1Co 2:1 When I came to
you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom,
proclaiming to you the testimony of God.
1Co 2:2 For I
determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and
him crucified.
1Co 2:3 I was with you
in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
1Co 2:4 My speech and
my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in
demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1Co 2:5 that your faith
wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
1Co 2:6 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.
1Co 2:7 But we speak
God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God
foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
1Co 2:8 which none of
the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they
wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.
1Co 2:9 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."
1Co 2:10 But to us, God
revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things,
yes, the deep things of God.
1Co 2:11 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.
1Co 2:12 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.
1Co 2:13 Which things
also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the
Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual
things.
1Co 2:14 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.
1Co 2:15 But he who is
spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
1Co 2:16 "For who
has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?"
But we have Christ's mind.