1And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.2:1 Some manuscripts proclaimed to you God’s mystery 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”2:9 Isaiah 64:4—
the things God has prepared for those who love him—
10these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual 14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16for,
“Who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”2:16 Isaiah 40:13
But we have the mind of Christ.
信仰的基礎
1弟兄姊妹，我當初到你們那裡傳揚上帝的奧祕，並沒有用高言大智。 2因為我已決定在你們當中不談別的，只談耶穌基督和祂被釘十字架的事。 3那時我在你們當中很軟弱，害怕，戰戰兢兢。 4我說話、講道不是靠充滿智慧的雄辯之詞，而是靠聖靈的能力作明證， 5好使你們的信仰不是以人的智慧為基礎，而是以上帝的能力為基礎。
6當然我們也跟成熟的人談論智慧，不過並非這個世代的智慧，也不是那些在世上當權、將要衰亡之人的智慧。 7我們所講的是上帝隱藏在奧祕中的智慧，是祂為了使我們得榮耀而在萬世以前定好的智慧。 8只可惜世上當權的人沒有一個明白這智慧。他們要是明白，就不會把榮耀的主釘在十字架上了。 9正如聖經上說：
「上帝為愛祂的人所預備的，
是眼睛未曾見過，
耳朵未曾聽聞，
人心也未曾想到的。」2·9 以賽亞書64·4。
10然而，上帝藉著聖靈將這一切啟示給我們，因為聖靈洞悉萬事，連上帝深奧的事都瞭若指掌。 11除了人裡面的靈，誰能瞭解人的事呢？照樣，除了上帝的靈，誰也不能瞭解上帝的事。 12我們接受的不是這世界的靈，而是上帝的靈，使我們可以領會上帝慷慨賜給我們的一切。 13我們講述這些事，不是用人類智慧所教的話，而是用聖靈所教的話，用屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事2·13 「用屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事」或譯「向屬靈的人解釋屬靈的事」。。
14然而，屬血氣的人不接受從上帝的靈而來的教導，認為愚不可及，無法明白，因為只有屬靈的人才能參透。 15屬靈的人能夠參透萬事，但沒有人能參透他。
16「誰曾知道主的心意，
能夠指教祂呢？」2·16 以賽亞書40·13。
但我們明白基督的心意。
