1 Corinthians 2

¹And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

²For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.

³And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.

⁴And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:

⁵So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

⁶But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

⁷But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

⁸Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:

⁹But as it says in the holy Writings, Things which the eye saw not, and which had not come to the ears or into the heart of man, such things as God has made ready for those who have love for him.

¹⁰But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.

¹¹For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.