| New Living Translation | New International Version |
| 1When I first came to you, dear brothers and sisters, I didn’t use lofty words and impressive wisdom to tell you God’s secret plan. | 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. |
| 2For I decided that while I was with you I would forget everything except Jesus Christ, the one who was crucified. | 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. |
| 3I came to you in weakness—timid and trembling. | 3I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. |
| 4And my message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit. | 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, |
| 5I did this so you would trust not in human wisdom but in the power of God. | 5so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God's power. |
| 6Yet when I am among mature believers, I do speak with words of wisdom, but not the kind of wisdom that belongs to this world or to the rulers of this world, who are soon forgotten. | 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. |
| 7No, the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God —his plan that was previously hidden, even though he made it for our ultimate glory before the world began. | 7No, we declare God's wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. |
| 8But the rulers of this world have not understood it; if they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord. | 8None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. |
| 9That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined what God has prepared for those who love him.” | 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-- |
| 10But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. | 10these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. |
| 11No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit. | 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. |
| 12And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. | 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. |
| 13When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. | 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. |
| 14But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. | 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. |
| 15Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. | 15The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, |
| 16For, “Who can know the LORD’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ. | 16for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. |
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