{"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/web/1-corinthians/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T19:38:45.837Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"1 Corinthians","bookSlug":"1-corinthians","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But as it is written, |Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.|"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"|For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?| But we have Christ's mind."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Corinthians 2 (WEB)","markdown":"[1 Corinthians 2](https://primebible.com/web/1-corinthians/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/1-corinthians/2 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}