1 Coríntios 2

1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

6 We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written,

"Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear,

which didn’t enter into the heart of man,

these God has prepared for those who love him."✝2:9 Isaiah 64:4

10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit. 12 But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God. 13 We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. 14 Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one. 16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?"✝2:16 Isaiah 40:13 But we have Christ’s mind.

Te Kōrero mō Īhu Karaiti i Rīpeka

1 Ko ahau, e ōku tēina, i ahau i haere atu ai ki a koutou, kīhai ahau i haere atu me te pai kupu, me te hua rānei o te whakaaro, i ahau i kauwhau ai ki a koutou i te mea ngaro a te Atua. 2 I takoto hoki tōku whakaaro, kia kaua ahau e mātau ki tētahi mea i roto i a koutou, ko Īhu Karaiti anake, ko ia hoki i rīpekatia. 3 Ā, i a koutou ahau me te ngoikore, me te wehi, me te tūiri nui. 4 Ko tāku kōrero me tāku kauwhau ehara i te kupu whakapati nā tō te tangata whakaaro nui, engari, he whakakitenga nā te Wairua, nā te kaha, 5 kia kore ai tō koutou whakapono e tū i runga i o te tangata whakaaro nui, engari, i tō te Atua kaha.

Te Mātauranga o te Atua

6 He ahakoa rā e kōrero ana mātou i te whakaaro nui ki waenganui i te hunga tino tika. Ehara anō ia i te whakaaro mōhio nō tēnei ao, nō ngā rangatira rānei o tēnei ao, e memeha haere nei. 7 Engari, e kōrero ana mātou i te whakaaro nui o te Atua i roto i te mea ngaro, i te whakaaro mōhio i huna rā, ko tā te Atua i whakatakoto ai i mua o ngā ao, hei whakakorōria mō tātou. 8 Kīhai nei tētahi o ngā rangatira o tēnei ao i mātau; me i mātau hoki rātou, kua kāhore e rīpekatia e rātou te Ariki o te korōria. 9 Engari, ka rite ki te mea i tuhituhia rā:

"Ko ngā mea kāhore te kanohi i kite,

kāhore te taringa i rongo,

kāhore anō i tapoko noa ki te ngākau o te tangata,

ko ngā mea kua rite i te Atua mō te hunga e aroha ana ki a ia."

10 Otiia, kua whakakitea mai aua mea ki a tātou e te Atua mā tōna Wairua. E rapu ana hoki te Wairua i ngā mea katoa, āe, i ngā mea hōhonu a te Atua. 11 Ko wai oti o ngā tāngata e mātau ana ki ngā mea a te tangata? Ko te wairua anake o te tangata i roto i a ia? Waihoki ko ngā mea a te Atua e kore e mātauria e tētahi, engari e te Wairua o te Atua. 12 Otiia, ko te wairua i riro mai nei i a tātou, ehara i te wairua o te ao, engari, ko te Wairua e ahu mai nei i te Atua; kia mātau ai tātou ki ngā mea kua oti nei te hōmai e te Atua ki a tātou.

13 Nā, ka kōrero mātou i aua mea, ehara ngā kupu i te whakaaro mōhio o te tangata i whakaako mai, engari, he mea whakaako nā te Wairua Tapu; e whakariterite ana i ngā mea wairua ki ngā mea wairua. 14 Nā, e kore te tangata i te ngākau māori e tango i ngā mea o te Wairua o te Atua. Ki a ia he mea kūware ērā, ā, e kore ia e āhei te mātau, he mea mā te Wairua ka kitea ai. 15 Otiia, ki te mea kei tētahi te Wairua, ka kitea e ia ngā mea katoa, e kore anō ia e kitea e tētahi.

16 "Ko wai hoki te mātau ana

ki te hinengaro o te Ariki,

e whakaako ai ia i a ia?"

Kei a tātou ia te hinengaro o te Karaiti.