| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come and tell you about God's secret with rhetorical language or wisdom. | 1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. |
| 2For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus the Messiah, and him crucified. | 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. |
| 3It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you. | 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. |
| 4My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit's power, | 4My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, |
| 5so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God's power. | 5so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. |
| 6However, when we are among mature people, we do speak a message of wisdom, but not the wisdom of this world or of the rulers of this world, who are passing off the scene. | 6Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. |
| 7Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory. | 7No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began. |
| 8None of the rulers of this world understood it, because if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. | 8None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. |
| 9But as it is written, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined the things that God has prepared for those who love him." | 9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.” |
| 10But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God. | 10But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. |
| 11Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit. | 11For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. |
| 12Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God. | 12We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. |
| 13We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people. | 13And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. |
| 14A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated. | 14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. |
| 15The spiritual person evaluates everything but is subject to no one else's evaluation. | 15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. |
| 16For "Who has known the mind of the Lord so that he can advise him?" However, we have the mind of the Messiah. | 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. |
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