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1 Corinthians 2

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1 Corinthians 2 Bible text

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When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

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And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

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For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

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For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

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And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

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My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

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And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

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that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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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.

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We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:

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But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

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but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds unto our glory:

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which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

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which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:

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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.”

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but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And which entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

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But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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But unto us God revealed them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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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.

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For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.

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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.

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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 of God.

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We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

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Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

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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.

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Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

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But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.

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But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man.

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“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

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For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.