1 Corinthians 2:6-3:4

English Standard Version

Wisdom from the Spirit

⁶ Yet among ^(A)the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not ^(B)a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, ^(C)who are doomed to pass away. ⁷ But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, ^(D)which God decreed before the ages for our glory. ⁸ None of ^(E)the rulers of this age understood this, for ^(F)if they had, they would not have crucified ^(G)the Lord of glory. ⁹ But, as it is written,

¹⁰ these things ^(K)God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even ^(L)the depths of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person's thoughts ^(M)except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² Now ^(N)we have received not ^(O)the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. ¹³ And we impart this ^(P)in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, ^(Q)interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.^[a]

¹⁴ The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(R)folly to him, and ^(S)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ The ^(T)spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ^16 (U)“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But ^(V)we have the mind of Christ.

Divisions in the Church

3 But I, brothers,^[b] could not address you as ^(W)spiritual people, but as ^(X)people of the flesh, as ^(Y)infants in Christ. ^2 (Z)I fed you with milk, not solid food, for ^(AA)you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, ³ for you are still of the flesh. For while there is ^(AB)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? ⁴ For ^(AC)when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” ^(AD)are you not being merely human?