1 WYC And Y, britheren, whanne Y cam to you, cam not in the heiynesse of word, ethir of wisdom, tellynge to you the witnessyng of Crist. 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 WYC For Y demede not me to kunne ony thing among you, but Crist Jhesu, and hym crucified. BSB BSB: For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
3 WYC And Y in sikenesse, and drede, and myche trembling, was among you; BSB BSB: I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.
4 WYC and my word and my preching was not in suteli sturyng wordis of mannus wisdom, but in schewyng of spirit and of vertu; BSB BSB: My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
5 WYC that youre feith be not in the wisdom of men, but in the vertu of God. BSB BSB: so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
6 WYC For we speken wisdom among perfit men, but not wisdom of this world, nether of princes of this world, that ben distried; 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 WYC but we speken the wisdom of God in mysterie, `which wisdom is hid; which wisdom God bifor ordeynede bifor worldis in to oure glorie, BSB BSB: No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.
8 WYC which noon of the princes of this world knew; for if thei hadden knowe, thei schulden neuere haue crucified the Lord of glorie. 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 WYC But as it is writun, That iye say not, ne eere herde, nether it stiede in to herte of man, what thingis God arayede to hem that louen hym; 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 WYC but God schewide to vs bi his spirit. For whi the spirit serchith alle thingis, yhe, the depe thingis 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 WYC And who of men woot, what thingis ben of man, but the spirit of man that is in hym? So what thingis ben of God, no man knowith, but 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 WYC And we han not resseiued the spirit of this world, but the spirit that is of God, that we wite what thingis ben youun to vs 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 WYC Whiche thingis we speken also, not in wise wordis of mannus wisdom, but in the doctryn of the spirit, and maken a liknesse of spiritual thingis to goostli men. 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 WYC For a beestli man perseyueth not tho thingis that ben of the spirit of God; for it is foli to hym, and he may not vndurstonde, for it is examyned goostli. 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 WYC But a spiritual man demeth alle thingis, and he is demed of no man. BSB BSB: The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.
16 WYC As it is writun, And who knew the wit of the Lord, or who tauyte hym? And we han the wit of Crist. 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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