{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:35:38.700Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"AND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For I judged not myself to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And my speech and my preaching was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power; "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought; "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory : "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Which none of the princes of this world knew; for if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But to us God hath revealed them, by this Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For what man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? So the things also that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Which things also we speak, not in the learned words of human wisdom; but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"But the sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit of God; for it is foolishness to him, and he cannot understand, because it is spiritually examined. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But the spiritual man judgeth all things; and he himself is judged of no man. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that we may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. "}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 2 (DRB)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/1-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}