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

³ And I came$ to you° in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling.

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,

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

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;

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.

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;

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}

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

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.

¹² But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the

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. {Footnote 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.)}

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.

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

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