Paul’s Message by the Spirit’s Power 1 DBY And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God. BSB BSB: When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.
2 DBY For I did not judge it well to know anything among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. BSB BSB: For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
3 DBY And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling; BSB BSB: I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.
4 DBY and my word and my preaching, not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; BSB BSB: My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
5 DBY that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but in God's power. BSB BSB: so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
Spiritual Wisdom (Ephesians 1:15–23)
6 DBY But we speak wisdom among the perfect; but wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who come to nought. BSB BSB: Among 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.
7 DBY But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: BSB BSB: No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.
8 DBY which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;) BSB BSB: None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 DBY but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him, BSB BSB: Rather, 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.”
10 DBY but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. BSB BSB: But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 DBY For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God. BSB BSB: For 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.
12 DBY But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God: BSB BSB: We 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.
13 DBY which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means . BSB BSB: And 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.
14 DBY But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; BSB BSB: The 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.
15 DBY but the spiritual discerns all things, and he is discerned of no one. BSB BSB: The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.
16 DBY For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. BSB BSB: “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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