1 Corinthians 2

2 ¹When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I didn't proclaim the testimony of our Father with fancy words or wisdom. ²For I resolved to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³And I came to you in weakness, in fear, and with much trembling. ⁴My message and preaching relied not on persuasive words of wisdom, but on proof of the Holy Spirit and of power, ⁵so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom but on the power of our Father.

⁶We do speak wisdom among the mature—not wisdom of this age, nor of this age's rulers, who are fading away. ⁷No, we speak the wisdom of our Father, a hidden mystery our Father destined before time began, for our glory. ⁸None of this age's rulers knew it; had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹As it is written: "What no eye has seen, no ear heard, and no human heart conceived—these things our Father has prepared for those who love him."

¹⁰But our Father revealed them to us through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even our Father's depths. ¹¹Who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? So too, no one knows our Father's thoughts except our Father's Spirit. ¹²We received not the world's spirit, but the Spirit from our Father, so we might know what our Father freely gave us. ¹³We speak this, not in words human wisdom teaches but the Spirit teaches, explaining spiritual truths to spiritual people. ¹⁴The person without the Spirit does not accept what comes from the Spirit of our Father; it is foolish to him, and he cannot grasp it, because it takes spiritual discernment. ¹⁵The person who is spiritual discerns all things, but is himself subject to no one's judgment. ¹⁶For "who has known our Father's mind, to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.