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When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I didn’t come preaching God’s secrets to you like I was an expert in speech or wisdom. I had made up my mind not to think about anything while I was with you except Jesus Christ, and to preach him as crucified. I stood in front of you with weakness, fear, and a lot of shaking. My message and my preaching weren’t presented with convincing wise words but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power. I did this so that your faith might not depend on the wisdom of people but on the power of God.

Definition of wisdom

What we say is wisdom to people who are mature. It isn’t a wisdom that comes from the present day or from today’s leaders who are being reduced to nothing. We talk about God’s wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began, for our glory. It is a wisdom that none of the present-day rulers have understood, because if they did understand it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory! But this is precisely what is written: God has prepared things for those who love him that no eye has seen, or ear has heard, or that haven’t crossed the mind of any human being.[a] 10 God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, including the depths of God. 11 Who knows a person’s depths except their own spirit that lives in them? In the same way, no one has known the depths of God except God’s Spirit. 12 We haven’t received the world’s spirit but God’s Spirit so that we can know the things given to us by God. 13 These are the things we are talking about—not with words taught by human wisdom but with words taught by the Spirit—we are interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 But people who are unspiritual don’t accept the things from God’s Spirit. They are foolishness to them and can’t be understood, because they can only be comprehended in a spiritual way. 15 Spiritual people comprehend everything, but they themselves aren’t understood by anyone. 16 Who has known the mind of the Lord, who will advise him?[b] But we have the mind of Christ.

And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom(A) as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.(B) I came to you(C) in weakness(D) with great fear and trembling.(E) My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,(F) but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,(G) so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.(H)

God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature,(I) but not the wisdom of this age(J) or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.(K) No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery(L) that has been hidden(M) and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age(N) understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.(O) However, as it is written:

“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”[b]
    the things God has prepared for those who love him—(P)

10 these are the things God has revealed(Q) to us by his Spirit.(R)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts(S) except their own spirit(T) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit(U) of the world,(V) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom(W) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[c] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(X) but considers them foolishness,(Y) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit(Z) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for,

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”[d](AA)

But we have the mind of Christ.(AB)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:1 Some manuscripts proclaimed to you God’s mystery
  2. 1 Corinthians 2:9 Isaiah 64:4
  3. 1 Corinthians 2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual
  4. 1 Corinthians 2:16 Isaiah 40:13

Los planes secretos de Dios

Hermanos en Cristo, cuando fui a ustedes, para hablarles de los planes que Dios tenía en secreto, no lo hice con palabras difíciles ni traté de impresionarlos. Al contrario, decidí hablarles sólo de Cristo, y principalmente de su muerte en la cruz. Cuando me acerqué para enseñarles y anunciarles el mensaje, me sentía poco importante y temblaba de miedo. No fui a ustedes como un sabelotodo, ni usé palabras elegantes. Sólo dejé que el Espíritu de Dios mostrara su poder y los convenciera. Y así, ustedes creyeron en Dios, no por medio de la sabiduría humana sino por el poder de Dios.

Dios da a conocer sus planes

Sin embargo, cuando hablamos con los que ya entienden mejor el mensaje de Dios, hablamos con sabiduría. Pero no empleamos la sabiduría humana como la emplean la gente y los gobernantes de este mundo. El poder que ellos tienen está condenado a desaparecer. Nosotros enseñamos el mensaje con palabras inteligentes, que vienen de Dios. Ese mensaje habla de los planes que Dios tenía en secreto desde antes de crear el mundo, y que él quiso manifestarnos para que podamos compartir su gloria. Claro que este plan inteligente de Dios no lo entendió ninguno de los gobernantes del mundo. Si ellos lo hubieran entendido, no habrían colgado de la cruz a nuestro Señor, quien es el dueño de la vida. Como dice la Biblia:

«Para aquellos que lo aman,
Dios ha preparado cosas
que nadie jamás pudo ver,
ni escuchar ni imaginar.»

10 Dios nos dio a conocer todo esto por medio de su Espíritu, porque el Espíritu de Dios lo examina todo, hasta los secretos más profundos de Dios.

11 Nadie puede saber lo que piensa otra persona. Sólo el espíritu de esa persona sabe lo que ella está pensando. De la misma manera, sólo el Espíritu de Dios sabe lo que piensa Dios. 12 Pero como Dios nos dio su Espíritu, nosotros podemos darnos cuenta de lo que Dios, en su bondad, ha hecho por nosotros.

13 Cuando hablamos de lo que Dios ha hecho por nosotros, no usamos las palabras que nos dicta la inteligencia humana, sino que usamos el lenguaje espiritual que nos enseña el Espíritu de Dios.

14 Los que no tienen el Espíritu de Dios no aceptan las enseñanzas espirituales, pues las consideran una tontería. Y tampoco pueden entenderlas, porque no tienen el Espíritu de Dios. 15 En cambio, los que tienen el Espíritu de Dios todo lo examinan y todo lo entienden. Pero los que no tienen el Espíritu, no pueden examinar ni entender a quienes lo tienen. 16 Como dice la Biblia: «¿Quién sabe lo que piensa el Señor? ¿Quién puede darle consejos?» Pero nosotros tenemos el Espíritu de Dios, y por eso pensamos como Cristo.