1 Corinthians 2 Now as for me, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come with a pomp of language or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now as for me, brethren, when I came to you, I did not come with a pomp of language or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God; ² for I determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ, even that crucified person; and ³ with regard to myself, I was among you in weakness and in fear, and in great trembling; ⁴ and my discourse and my proclamation was not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but with a demonstration of spirit and power, ⁵ that your belief might not be by the wisdom of men, but by the power of God. ⁶ We, however, speak wisdom among them who are perfect, but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the chiefs of this age to whose operations a stop is put; ⁷ but we speak a mysterious wisdom of God that hidden [wisdom] which God determinately marked out for the benefit of the ages, to our glory ⁸ which none of the chiefs of this age knew [for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of the glory] ⁹ things indeed, which as it is written, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived; " which God hath prepared for them who love him; ¹⁰ and which God hath revealed to us by his spirit. For this spirit searcheth all things, even the depths of God. ¹¹ For who of mankind knoweth the things of a man, but only the spirit of the man which is in him? So no one knoweth the things of God, but the spirit of God only. ¹² Now we have not received the spirit of this world, but the spirit which is from God, that we may know the things which God hath freely granted to us; ¹³ which things we indeed speak, not in set words of human wisdom, but in the dictated words of a holy spirit, explaining spiritual things by spiritual words. ¹⁴ Now an animal man receiveth not those dictates of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot know them, because they are to be spiritually examined; ¹⁵ but the spiritual man examineth all things, and is himself examined by no man. ¹⁶ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Who can instruct him? As for us we have the mind of Christ.