1 Corinthians 2

1When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.Cross-references: Ex 4:10 · Isa 8:20 · Jer 1:6 · Acts 18:1 · Acts 20:21 · Acts 22:18 · +15 more

2For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.Cross-references: John 17:3 · 1Cor 1:22 · Gal 3:1 · Gal 6:14 · Phil 3:8

3I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.Cross-references: Acts 17:1 · Acts 17:6 · Acts 18:1 · Acts 18:6 · Acts 18:12 · Acts 20:18 · +13 more

4My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,Cross-references: Judg 14:15 · Judg 16:5 · 2Sam 14:17 · 2Sam 15:2 · 1Ki 22:13 · 2Chr 18:19 · +20 more

5that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.Cross-references: Acts 16:14 · 1Cor 1:17 · 1Cor 3:6 · 2Cor 4:7 · 2Cor 6:7 · 2Cor 12:9

6We 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.Cross-references: Job 1:1 · Job 12:19 · Job 12:21 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 33:10 · Ps 37:37 · +24 more

7But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,Cross-references: Ps 78:2 · Isa 48:6 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 13:35 · Rom 16:25 · Eph 1:4 · +8 more

8which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.Cross-references: Ps 24:7 · Matt 11:25 · Luke 23:34 · John 3:19 · John 7:48 · John 8:19 · +12 moreExamined: Unitarianism →

9But 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.”Cross-references: Ps 31:19 · Isa 64:4 · Isa 65:17 · Matt 20:23 · Matt 25:34 · John 3:16 · +6 more

10But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.Cross-references: Job 12:22 · Ps 92:5 · Isa 48:16 · Isa 59:21 · Dan 2:22 · Amos 3:7 · +19 more

11For 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.Cross-references: Prov 14:10 · Prov 20:5 · Prov 20:27 · Jer 17:9 · Rom 11:33 · 1Cor 2:10

12But 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.Cross-references: John 16:14 · Rom 8:1 · Rom 8:5 · Rom 8:15 · Rom 8:32 · 1Cor 1:27 · +11 more

13We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.Cross-references: Luke 12:12 · Acts 2:4 · 1Cor 1:17 · 1Cor 2:1 · 1Cor 2:4 · 1Cor 2:14 · +8 more

14Now 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.Cross-references: Prov 14:6 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 16:23 · John 3:3 · John 5:44 · John 6:44 · +26 more

15But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:16 · 2Sam 14:17 · 1Ki 3:9 · Ps 25:14 · Prov 28:5 · Eccl 8:5 · +14 more

16“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.Cross-references: Gen 1:12 · Job 15:8 · Job 22:2 · Job 40:2 · Isa 40:13 · Jer 23:18 · +5 more