| New International Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. | 1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. |
| 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. | 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. |
| 3I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. | 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. |
| 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration 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 might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power. | 5so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. |
| 6We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. | 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. |
| 7No, we declare God's wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. | 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 age understood it, for 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. |
| 9However, as it is written: "What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived" -- the things 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.” |
| 10these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, 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. |
| 11For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. | 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. |
| 12What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. | 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. |
| 13This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. | 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. |
| 14The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. | 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 person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, | 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 as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. | 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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