1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom , which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them , because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 et ego cum venissem ad vos fratres
veni non per sublimitatem sermonis aut sapientiae
adnuntians vobis testimonium Christi
2 non enim iudicavi scire me aliquid inter vos
nisi Iesum Christum et hunc crucifixum
3 et ego in infirmitate et timore et tremore multo fui apud vos
4 et sermo meus et praedicatio mea
non in persuasibilibus sapientiae
verbis
sed in ostensione Spiritus et virtutis
5 ut fides vestra non sit in sapientia hominum sed in virtute Dei
6 sapientiam autem loquimur inter perfectos
sapientiam vero non huius saeculi
neque principum huius saeculi qui destruuntur
7 sed loquimur Dei sapientiam in mysterio quae abscondita est
quam praedestinavit Deus ante saecula in gloriam nostram
8 quam nemo principum huius saeculi cognovit
si enim cognovissent numquam Dominum gloriae crucifixissent
9 sed sicut scriptum est
quod oculus non vidit nec auris audivit nec in cor hominis ascendit
quae praeparavit Deus his qui diligunt illum
10 nobis autem revelavit Deus per Spiritum suum
Spiritus enim omnia scrutatur etiam profunda Dei
11 quis enim scit hominum quae sint hominis
nisi spiritus hominis qui in ipso est
ita et quae Dei sunt nemo cognovit nisi Spiritus Dei
12 nos autem non spiritum mundi accepimus
sed Spiritum qui ex Deo est
ut sciamus quae a Deo donata sunt nobis
13 quae et loquimur non in doctis humanae sapientiae verbis
sed in doctrina Spiritus
spiritalibus spiritalia conparantes
14 animalis autem homo non percipit ea quae sunt Spiritus Dei
stultitia est enim illi
et non potest intellegere quia spiritaliter examinatur
15 spiritalis autem iudicat omnia
et ipse a nemine iudicatur
16 quis enim cognovit sensum Domini qui instruat eum
nos autem sensum Christi habemus