21Or, word Compare ch. 1:5.
22So p46vid ℵ*CA copbo. But B 1739 33 81 1506 and most lesser Gk. mss., copsa arm vg read testimony
2: 2 for I determined not to 23know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
23Lit. see (οραω: ειδεναι) Or, be knowledgeable of or, present
2: 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
2: 4 And my 24speech and my 25preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
24Or, word
25Gk. thing preached
2: 5 that your faith should not 26stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
26Gk. be
2: 6 We speak wisdom, however, among 27them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought:
27Or, the perfect ones:
2: 7 but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the ages unto our glory:
2: 8 which none of the rulers of this age hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
2: 9 but as it is written, 28Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.
28Is 64:4; 65:17.
2: 10 29But unto us God revealed 30them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yes, the deep things of God.
29So ℵCA 33 81 1506 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., arm vg. p46vidB 1739 copsa read For
30Or, it
2: 11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.
2: 12 But we received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
2: 13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; 31comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
31Or perhaps, comparative studies of spiritual things.
2: 14 Now 32the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually 33discerned.
32Lit. a man of the soul or, self-centered man
33Or, researched. or, judged. Similarly twice in vs. 15.
2: 15 But he that is spiritual discerneth all things, and he himself is discerned by no man.
2: 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
