2:1 |
tNIV | When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. | And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. | And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. |
2:3 |
tNIV | I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. | I came to you in weakness and with great fear, and with much trembling. | I came to you in weakness and with great fear, and with much trembling. |
2:5 |
tNIV | so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. | so that your faith might not rest on men’s human wisdom, but on God’s power. | so that your faith might not rest on men’s human wisdom, but on God’s power. |
2:7 |
tNIV | No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. | No, we speak of declare God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. | No, we speak of declare God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. |
2:9 |
NIV2011 | However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”— | However, as it is written: “No What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived what — these things God has prepared for those who love him”— | However, as it is written: “No What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived what ”— the things God has prepared for those who love him”— |
2:10 |
NIV2011 | but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. | but for God has revealed it them to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. | but these are the things God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. |
2:11 |
NIV2011 | For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. | For who among men knows the a person’s thoughts of a man except the man that person’s own spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. | For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man person’s thoughts except their own spirit within him them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. |
2:12 |
NIV2011 | 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. | 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. | We What we have received is not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. |
2:13 |
tNIV | 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. | This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing explaining spiritual truths in spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. | This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing explaining spiritual truths in spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. |
2:14 |
tNIV | The man without the Spirit 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. | The man person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are but considers them foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned only through the Spirit. | The man person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are but considers them foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned only through the Spirit. |
2:15 |
tNIV | The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: | The spiritual man person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but he himself such a person is not subject to any man’s judgment: merely human judgments, | The spiritual man person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but he himself such a person is not subject to any man’s judgment: merely human judgments, |
2:16 |
tNIV | “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. | for, “For who Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. | for, “For who Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. |