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MODERN LITERAL VERSION - 2026 Update

2:1       And brethren, after I came to you^° proclaiming the testimony of God to you^°, I did not come according-to superiority of speech or of wisdom.

2:2 For^* I decided not to know anything among you^°, except Jesus Christ and this: he has been crucified.

2:3 And I came^* to you^° in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling.

2:4 And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

2:5 in-order-that your^° faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but be in the power of God.      

2:6 Now we are speaking wisdom among the mature ones but not a wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are being done-away-with;

2:7 but we are speaking God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom which has been hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the ages, ^*for our glory.

2:8 It is this mystery which none of the rulers of this age has known, for^* if they knew it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

2:9 but as it has been written, ‘Things which the eye did not see and the ear did not hear and things which did not come-up in the heart of man, which God prepared for the ones loving^* him.’ {Isa 64:4}      

2:10 But God revealed them to us through his Spirit, for^* the Spirit is searching all things, even the depths of God.

2:11 For^* who from men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, the one in him? So also, no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God.

2:12 But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the ^{F} Spirit who is from God, in-order-that we might know the things which were granted to us by God.

2:13 Which things, we also speak, not in taught words from human wisdom, but in taught words from the Holy Spirit, combining together-with spiritual words and spiritual things.       {F: 1Co 2:12: Spirit who, or: spirit that; (meaning just a simple contrast like ‘things of the world, things from God.’ All punctuation and verse numbering are man-made.)}      

2:14 Now the physical man is not accepting the things from the Spirit of God; for^* they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually examined.

2:15 But the spiritual one is indeed examining all things, but he himself is examined by no one.

2:16 For^* who knew the mind of the Lord, who will be lecturing him? But we have the mind of Christ. {Isa 40:13}