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.

1 Ja nõnda on ka minuga, vennad ja õed. Tulles teie juurde kuulutama Jumala saladust, ei tulnud ma kaunite sõnade või inimliku tarkusega. 2 Ma ei tahtnud teie keskel teada muust kui Jeesusest Kristusest ja tema ristisurmast. 3 Saabusin teie juurde nõtruses ja kartuse värinaga 4 ning mu kõne ja kuulutus ei toetunud tarkadele ja veenvatele sõnadele, vaid Püha Vaimu väe osutamisele, 5 et teie usk oleks rajatud Jumala väele, mitte inimtarkusele.

6 Tarkusest me räägime täiuslike seas; ent mitte käesoleva ajastu ja selle surelike valitsejate tarkusest, 7 vaid me anname edasi Jumala salajast ja varjatud tarkust, mille Jumal on määranud meie kirkuseks enne ajastute algust 8 ja mida ei ole mõistnud ükski käesoleva ajastu valitsejatest, sest kui nad oleksid mõistnud, ei oleks nad kirkuse Issandat risti löönud. 9 Siiski on kirjutatud:

„Mida ükski silm pole näinud,

mida ükski kõrv ei ole kuulnud,

ja mis ei ole inimesele mõttessegi tulnud,"

asjad, mida Jumal on valmistanud neile, kes teda armastavad –

10 seda on Jumal meile ilmutanud oma Vaimu kaudu, sest Vaim uurib läbi kõik, ka Jumala sügavad saladused. 11 Kes muu teab, mis on inimeses, kui vaid inimese vaim? Samuti ei tunne keegi, mis on Jumalas, kui vaid Jumala Vaim. 12 Meie aga ei ole saanud maailma vaimu, vaid Vaimu, kes on Jumalast, et võiksime teada, mida Jumal meile heldesti kingib. 13 Sellest me räägime sõnadega, mida ei ole õpetanud inimlik tarkus, vaid Jumala Vaim, selgitades vaimseid tõdesid vaimsel viisil.

14 Kuid maine inimene ei võta vastu, mis on Jumala Vaimust. Tema jaoks on see rumalus; ta ei võigi aru saada, sest seda tuleb mõista vaimselt. 15 Vaimne inimene aga mõistab kõike, ent teda ennast ei mõista keegi.

16 „Kes on ära tundnud Issanda meele,

et temale nõu anda?"

Kuid meil on Kristuse meel!