Greek: New Testament (NAS)
English: John Barach
English: John Barach
Chapter 2
Paul’s Humble Proclamation
| 1 Κἀγὼ ἐλθὼν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοί, ἦλθον οὐ καθ' ὑπεροχὴν λόγου ἢ σοφίας καταγγέλλων ὑμῖν τὸ μυστήριον τοῦ θεοῦ. 2 οὐ γὰρ ἔκρινά τι εἰδέναι ἐν ὑμῖν εἰ μὴ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν καὶ τοῦτον ἐσταυρωμένον. 3 κἀγὼ ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ καὶ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ ἐν τρόμῳ πολλῷ ἐγενόμην πρὸς ὑμᾶς, 4 καὶ ὁ λόγος μου καὶ τὸ κήρυγμά μου οὐκ ἐν πειθοῖς σοφίας [λόγοις] ἀλλ' ἐν ἀποδείξει πνεύματος καὶ δυνάμεως, 5 ἵνα ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν μὴ ᾖ ἐν σοφίᾳ ἀνθρώπων ἀλλ' ἐν δυνάμει θεοῦ. |
| 1And when I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you with excellence of rhetoric or wisdom. 2For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ—and him crucified. 3I myself came before you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5so that your faith would not rest in human wisdom but in the power of God. |
God’s Hidden Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit
| 6 Σοφίαν δὲ λαλοῦμεν ἐν τοῖς τελείοις, σοφίαν δὲ οὐ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου οὐδὲ τῶν ἀρχόντων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου τῶν καταργουμένων· 7 ἀλλὰ λαλοῦμεν θεοῦ σοφίαν ἐν μυστηρίῳ τὴν ἀποκεκρυμμένην, ἣν προώρισεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων εἰς δόξαν ἡμῶν, 8 ἣν οὐδεὶς τῶν ἀρχόντων τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου ἔγνωκεν, εἰ γὰρ ἔγνωσαν· οὐκ ἄν τὸν κύριον τῆς δόξης ἐσταύρωσαν. 9 ἀλλὰ καθὼς γέγραπται, |
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6Yet we do speak a wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are being brought to nothing.
7Instead, we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery—the wisdom that has been hidden, which God predestined before the ages for our glory.
8None of the rulers of this age understood it; for if they had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9But as it is written:
What no eye has seen and no ear has heard,
{Isa. 64:4; 52:15}
and what has not entered into the heart of human beings,
all that God has prepared for those who love him. [Sir. 1:10] |
| 10 ἡμῖν δὲ ἀπεκάλυψεν ὁ θεὸς διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος· τὸ γὰρ πνεῦμα πάντα ἐραυνᾷ, καὶ τὰ βάθη τοῦ θεοῦ. 11 τίς γὰρ οἶδεν ἀνθρώπων τὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰ μὴ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ; οὕτως καὶ τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐδεὶς ἔγνωκεν εἰ μὴ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ. 12 ἡμεῖς δὲ οὐ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ κόσμου ἐλάβομεν ἀλλὰ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα εἰδῶμεν τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ χαρισθέντα ἡμῖν· 13 ἃ καὶ λαλοῦμεν οὐκ ἐν διδακτοῖς ἀνθρωπίνης σοφίας λόγοις ἀλλ' ἐν διδακτοῖς πνεύματος, πνευματικοῖς πνευματικὰ συγκρίνοντες. |
| 10For God has revealed these things to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. 11For who among humans knows the things of a person except the spirit of the person that is within them? In the same way, no one has known the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might understand the things freely given to us by God. 13We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom but in those taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to spiritual people. |
| 14 ψυχικὸς δὲ ἄνθρωπος οὐ δέχεται τὰ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ θεοῦ· μωρία γὰρ αὐτῷ ἐστιν καὶ οὐ δύναται γνῶναι, ὅτι πνευματικῶς ἀνακρίνεται. 15 ὁ δὲ πνευματικὸς ἀνακρίνει [τὰ] πάντα, αὐτὸς δὲ ὑπ' οὐδενὸς ἀνακρίνεται. ἡμεῖς δὲ νοῦν Χριστοῦ ἔχομεν. |
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14But the “natural” person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
15But the spiritual person discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no one.
16For:
Who has known the mind of the Lord,
But we have the mind of Christ.
so as to instruct him? {Isa. 40:13} |