1 Corinthians 2 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

1And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of

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Or, word

speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the

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Many ancient authorities read mystery.

testimony of God.

2For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

4And my

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Or, word

speech and my

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Greek thing preached.

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

5that your faith should not

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Greek be.

stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this

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Or, age: and so in verses 7, 8; but not in verse 12.

world, nor of the rulers of this

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Or, age: and so in verses 7, 8; but not in verse 12.

world, who are coming to nought:

7but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom that hath been hidden, which God foreordained before the

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Or, age

worlds unto our glory:

8which none of the rulers of this

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Or, age

world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:

9but as it is written,

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Isa. 64:4; 65:17.

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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Some ancient authorities read For.

But unto us God revealed

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Or, it

them through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11For 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.

12But we received, not the spirit of the

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See verse 6.

world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.

13Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth;

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Or, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men

combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

14Now the

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Or, unspiritual. Greek psychical.

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

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Or, examined

judged.

15But he that is spiritual

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Or, examineth

judgeth all things, and he himself is

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Or, examined

judged of no man.

16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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Pink strikethrough: in SBLGNT, omitted from the ASV-selected Greek reading. Green underline: in the ASV-selected reading, absent from SBLGNT.

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