Prva poslanica Korinæanima 2
1 Draga braćo i sestre, kad sam prvi put došao k vama, nisam se služio uzvišenim ni dubokoumnim riječima da vam navijestim Božju poruku.2 Jer odlučio sam među vama ne znati ništa drugo osim Isusa Krista, i to raspetoga.3 Došao sam k vama slab - bojažljivo i drhteći.4 Moj govor i propovijedanje nisu se zasnivali na mudrim i uvjerljivim riječima, nego na djelovanju Svetoga Duha među vama,
5 zato da svoju vjeru ne temeljite na ljudskoj mudrosti, nego na Božjoj sili.
6 Doduše, kad smo sa zrelim kršćanima, navješćujemo mudrost - ali ne mudrost ovoga svijeta ni takvu mudrost koja bi se svidjela vladarima ovoga svijeta koji su ionako osuđeni na propast.7 Navješćujemo tajnu, skrivenu Božju mudrost koju je Bog namijenio našoj dobrobiti još prije postanka svijeta.8 Vladari ovoga svijeta nisu ju razumjeli - jer da jesu, ne bi raspeli našega Gospodina slave.
9 Upravo je to značenje ulomka iz Svetoga pisma:
"Ono što oko još nije vidjelo,
što uho još nije čulo
niti um može zamisliti,
to je Bog pripravio
onima koji ga ljube."10 Ali mi to znamo jer nam je Bog otkrio svojim Duhom koji proniče sve, pa tako i Božje dubine.11 Tko može znati misli nekog čovjeka osim njegova vlastitoga čovječjeg duha u njemu? Tako ni Božje misli ne može znati nitko osim Božjega Duha.12 I tog nam je Božjeg Duha (a ne duha svijeta) Bog dao da bismo mogli znati čime nas je obdario.13 Govoreći vam o tomu, ne služimo se riječima ljudske mudrosti, nego riječima koje nam daje Sveti Duh - služeći se riječima Duha da bismo objasnili duhovne istine.14 Ali čovjek tjelesne naravi ne može razumjeti spoznaje koje daje Božji Duh. Njemu se one čine ludošću jer ih valja prosuđivati Duhom.
15 Čovjek koji ima Duha može sve prosuđivati, ali drugi nisu kadri prosuđivati njega.
16 "Jer tko poznaje Gospodnje misli?
Tko će njemu dati savjet?"
Ali mi imamo Kristov um.
1 Corinthians 2
1 When I camet to you, brothers and sisters,t I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimonys of God.2 For I decided to be concerned about nothingt among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.
Wisdom from God
6 Now we do speak wisdom among the mature,t but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.7 Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.9 But just as it is written, “Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined,tare the things God has prepared for those who love him.”s10 God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.13 And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.t14 The unbelievert does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.15 The one who is spiritual discernst all things, yet he himself is understoodt by no one.
16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him?s But we have the mind of Christ.