1st Corinthians 2

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come with excellency of speech or with the wisdom (of the world), (but I came) declaring unto you the testimony of God (in Christ Jesus).

2 For I am determined not to know (or declare any other doctrine) among you but Christ and Him crucified (which is the testimony of God wherein you are crucified to the world and the world to you, unto the life and bodily immortality revealed in Him).

3 And I was with you in weakness (of my own flesh), and in (reverential) fear (and awe) and in much trembling (looking only to His grace and strength as my sufficiency to appear in His life).

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words which contained the wisdom of men (that are mighty or noble according to the world, which come to nothing and can produce nothing but death), but in (full) demonstration of the Spirit and of power (of God, in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus our Lord):

5 So that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in (the wisdom and) the power of God (contained in the testimony of God, Christ and Him crucified, so that you may appear in His same life and bodily immortality).

6 Nevertheless we (who by of the Spirit of God, know God as Father, even as we are known of Him as His sons) speak wisdom among them that are perfect (sanctified from death where they no longer reason from the carnal mind): yet we do not speak with the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, which (wisdom) comes to nothing:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before (the foundation of) the world unto our glory (the glory that was revealed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ):

8 Which (wisdom) none of the princes (the rulers) of this world knew (or understood): for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory (that their rulership would be spoiled and openly triumphed over).

9 But as it was (previously) written (by Isaiah), Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him (and allow Him to serve them with His life).

10 But (now in the resurrection of Jesus Christ) God has revealed all these things unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yes, (even) the deep things of God.

11 For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God no one knows, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world (that is in darkness even now), but the Spirit which is of God (in us); so that we might know (and understand) the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches (and reveals to the heart): communicating spiritual things with spiritual (to those who receive the Spirit).

14 But (apart from the Spirit) the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (and understood in Christ of whom the Spirit speaks).

15 But he that (receives the Spirit of God) is spiritual, judging all things (discerning between that which is able to give life or that which brings death), yet he himself is judged of no man.