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2:1  When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom.
2:2  For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus the Messiah, and him crucified.
2:3  It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.
2:4  My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power,
2:5  so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power.
2:6  However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene.
2:7  Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory.
2:8  None of the rulers of this world understood it, because if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
2:9  But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him."
2:10  But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.
2:11  Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit.
2:12  Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God.
2:13  We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people.
2:14  A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.
2:15  The spiritual person evaluates everything but is subject to no one else's evaluation.
2:16  For "Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can advise him?" However, we have the mind of the Messiah.