1 Corinthians 2
1And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the testimony of God to you with rhetorical brilliance or philosophical sophistication. 2For I decided not to claim knowledge of anything among you except Jesus the Messiah—and him specifically as the one who was crucified. 3I was with you in a state of weakness, in fear, and with much trembling. 4My speech and my proclamation did not consist of the persuasive tactics of human wisdom, but were a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith would not rest on human wisdom but on the power of God.
6Now, we do speak a kind of wisdom among those who are mature, but it is not a wisdom belonging to this current age, nor to the rulers of this age who are being phased out of power. 7Rather, we speak God’s wisdom in the form of a sacred secret—the wisdom that was hidden, which God predestined before the ages for our glory. 8None of the rulers of this current age understood this; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9But as it is written: “Things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, and which have not even entered the human heart— these are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”
10For God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches out all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among humans knows a person’s inner thoughts except the human spirit within them? In the same way, no one knows the inner thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12Now, we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might recognize the things freely given to us by God. 13We also speak of these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths in spiritual terms.
14The psychikos person—one living by mere human instinct—does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are nonsense to him. He is unable to understand them because they are evaluated through the Spirit. 15The spiritual person, however, evaluates all things, yet he himself is not subject to evaluation by anyone. 16As the Scripture says: “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of the Messiah.