1 And I, having come to you⁺, brothers, did not come according to excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you⁺ the testimony of God. VP
2 For I decided not to know anything among you⁺ except Jesus Christ and Him having been crucified. VP
3 And I was with you⁺ in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. VP
4 And my speech and my preaching [were] not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of [the] Spirit and of power, VP
5 so that your⁺ faith may not be in [the] wisdom of men, but in [the] power of God. VP
6 But we speak wisdom among the mature, but not [the] wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. VP
7 But we speak [the] wisdom of God in a mystery having been hidden away, which God predestined before the ages for our glory, VP
8 which none of the rulers of this age has known. For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. VP
9 But as it has been written: “What no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and has not gone up upon [the] heart of man—as much as God prepared for those loving Him.” VP
10 For to us God revealed [it] through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. VP
11 For who of men knows the [things] of the man except the spirit of the man that [is] in him? So also, no one has known the [things] of God except the Spirit of God. VP
12 Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, so that we may know the [things] having been graciously given to us by God, VP
13 which we also speak, not in words taught of human wisdom, but in [those] taught of [the] Spirit, expressing spiritual things by spiritual [means]. VP
14 But [the] natural man does not accept 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. VP
15 But the spiritual [man] judges all things, but he himself is judged by no one. VP
16 For “who has known [the] mind of [the] Lord, that he will instruct Him?” But we have [the] mind of Christ. VP