>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/1-cor/2?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#09202::c09202) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/1Corinthians/2.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1co/2/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>Paul is addressing the Corinthians, explaining his approach to preaching and emphasizing the importance of spiritual wisdom over worldly wisdom. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>Paul tells the people about Jesus and says that it's not about being smart with words but about feeling God's love and knowing Jesus is special because he died for us. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>Paul emphasizes that he did not use fancy language or human wisdom when he preached to the Corinthians. Instead, he focused on the message of Jesus Christ and His crucifixion, demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit. He teaches that true wisdom comes from God and is revealed through the Spirit, which helps believers understand the deeper things of God that are hidden from the worldly. > >#Gospel/JesusChrist #Gospel/HolyGhost #Gospel/SpiritualWisdom ###### 1 1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. ###### 2 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ###### 3 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ###### 4 4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: ###### 5 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. ###### 6 6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: ###### 7 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: ###### 8 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ###### 9 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. ###### 10 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. ###### 11 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. ###### 12 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. ###### 13 13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ###### 14 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ###### 15 15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. ###### 16 16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.