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1 Corinthians 2 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:1 - When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:2 - For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:3 - And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:4 - and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:5 - that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:6 - Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:7 - But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:8 - None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:9 - But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,"
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:10 - God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:11 - For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:12 - Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:13 - And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:14 - The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:15 - The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.
Unchecked Copy Box1Co 2:16 - "For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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