2:1 When I came to you, brothers, proclaiming the mystery of God, I did not come with sublimity of words or of wisdom.
2:2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
2:3 I came to you in weakness and fear and much trembling,
2:4 and my message and my proclamation were not with persuasive (words of) wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power,
2:5 so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
2:6 Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away.
2:7 Rather, we speak God’s wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God predetermined before the ages for our glory,
2:8 and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2:9 But as it is written: "What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,"
2:10 this God has revealed to us through the Spirit.For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God.
2:11 Among human beings, who knows what pertains to a person except the spirit of the person that is within? Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.
2:12 We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the things freely given us by God.
2:13 And we speak about them not with words taught by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, describing spiritual realities in spiritual terms.
2:14 Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually.
2:15 The spiritual person, however, can judge everything but is not subject to judgment by anyone.
2:16 For "who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?" But we have the mind of Christ.