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Proclaiming Christ Crucified

¹ And I, when I came to you, brothers,^{[a] (a)}did not come proclaiming to you ^(b)the testimony^[b] of God with lofty speech or wisdom. ² For I decided to know nothing among you except ^(c)Jesus Christ and him crucified. ³ And ^(d)I was with you ^(e)in weakness and in fear and much trembling, ⁴ and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of ^(f)the Spirit and of power, ⁵ so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men^[c] but ^(g)in the power of God.

Wisdom from the Spirit

⁶ Yet among ^(h)the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not ⁽ⁱ⁾a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, ^(j)who are doomed to pass away. ⁷ But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, ^(k)which God decreed before the ages for our glory. ⁸ None of ^(l)the rulers of this age understood this, for ^(m)if they had, they would not have crucified ⁽ⁿ⁾the Lord of glory. ⁹ But, as it is written,

¹⁰ these things ^(r)God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even ^(s)the depths of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person's thoughts ^(t)except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now ^(u)we have received not ^(v)the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. ¹³ And we impart this ^(w)in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, ^(x)interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.^[d]

¹⁴ The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(y)folly to him, and ^(z)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ The ^(aa)spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ^16 (ab)"For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But ^(ac)we have the mind of Christ.