Book of Common Prayer

And I Came To You Proclaiming Christ Crucified Without Human Eloquence Or Wisdom

2 And I, having come^[a] to you, brothers, did not come in accordance with superiority^[b] of speech or of wisdom while proclaiming to you the mystery of God. ² For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ— and this One having been crucified. ³ And I was^[c] with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my proclamation was not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration^[d] of ^[e] the Spirit and power, ⁵ in order that your faith might not be in the wisdom of humans but in the power of God.

Yet We Are Speaking God’s Wisdom To The Mature

⁶ Yet we are speaking wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age— the ones being brought-to-nothing. ⁷ Rather we are speaking God’s wisdom in a mystery; the wisdom having been hidden which God predestined before the ages for our glory, ⁸ which none of the rulers of this age has understood. For if they had understood, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But it ^[f] is just as it has been written: “Things which an eye did not see and an ear did not hear, and which did not come-up^[g] on the heart of a human— which God prepared for the ones loving Him”.

God Revealed This Wisdom To Us Through His Spirit

¹⁰ And God revealed it ^[h] to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who among people knows the things of the person except the spirit of the person within him? In this manner also, no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² And we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, in order that we might know the things having been freely-given to us by God— ¹³ things which we also are speaking not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, combining^[i] spiritual things with spiritual words.

²¹ The one having My commandments and keeping them— that one is the one loving^[a] Me. And the one loving Me will be loved by My Father. And I will love him and reveal Myself to him”.

The Father And I Will Abide With Those Who Love Me And Keep My Word

²² Judas (not the Iscariot) says to Him, “Lord, what indeed has taken place that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world^[b]?” ²³ Jesus responded and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. And My Father will love him. And We will come to him. And We will make a place-to-stay with him. ²⁴ The one not loving Me does not keep My words. And the word which you^[c] are hearing is not Mine, but the Father’s having sent Me.

The Holy Spirit Whom The Father Will Send In My Name Will Teach You All Things

²⁵ “I have spoken these things to you while staying^[d] with you. ²⁶ But the Helper— the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name— that One will teach you all things, and remind you of everything which I said to you.

I Leave You My Peace. Do Not Be Troubled. I Am Returning To The Father

²⁷ “I leave you peace. I give you My peace. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid^[e]. ²⁸ You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going, and I am coming to you’. If you were loving^[f] Me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because^[g] the Father is greater than Me. ²⁹ And now I have told you before it takes place, in order that when it takes place, you may believe.