1 Corinthians 2

¹And I, brothers and sisters, when I came to you, came not with superiority of speech or wisdom, proclaiming to you the mystery of God.

²For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

³And I myself was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

⁴and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁵so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶Yet we do speak wisdom among the mature, wisdom however not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing;

⁷but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God foreordained before the ages for our glory,

⁸which none of the rulers of this age has known; for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹but just as it is written, 'What eye did not see and ear did not hear and did not ascend into the heart of man — what God has prepared for those who love him.'

¹⁰And to us God has revealed it through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

¹¹For who among men knows the things of the man except the spirit of the man that is in him? So also the things of God no one has known except the Spirit of God.

¹²Now we received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.

¹³which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, interpreting spiritual things with spiritual words.

¹⁴But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵But the spiritual person examines all things, yet he himself is examined by no one.

¹⁶For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.