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1 Corinthians 2

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1 Corinthians 2 . 1

1 When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.C1 Corinthians 01:17-02:2 · 1 Corinthians 02:1-03:1TOSK1 Corinthians 2:1

1 Corinthians 2 . 2

2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.C1 Corinthians 01:17-02:2TOSK1 Corinthians 2:2

1 Corinthians 2 . 3

3 I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:3

1 Corinthians 2 . 4

4 My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,TOSK1 Corinthians 2:4

1 Corinthians 2 . 5

5 so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:5

1 Corinthians 2 . 6

6 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.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:6TTSolomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom)

1 Corinthians 2 . 7

7 No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:7TTWisdom and Foolishness of the Cross

1 Corinthians 2 . 8

8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:8

1 Corinthians 2 . 9

9 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."IPIsaiah 64:4TOSK1 Corinthians 2:9TTWisdom and Foolishness of the Cross

1 Corinthians 2 . 10

10 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:10

1 Corinthians 2 . 11

11 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.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:11

1 Corinthians 2 . 12

12 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.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:12

1 Corinthians 2 . 13

13 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.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:13

1 Corinthians 2 . 14

14 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.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:14

1 Corinthians 2 . 15

15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.TOSK1 Corinthians 2:15

1 Corinthians 2 . 16

16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.IPIsaiah 40:13TOSK1 Corinthians 2:16TTEden as Temple (Original Sanctuary) · New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern) · Return from Exile (Restoration and Hope) · Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom) · Wisdom and Foolishness of the Cross

In the wider web9 threads

Intertextuality Pairs

Quotations 1 Corinthians 2:16 → Isaiah 40:13

Allusions 1 Corinthians 2:9 → Isaiah 64:4

Trajectories

Eden as Temple (Original Sanctuary), New Exodus (Second Exodus Pattern), Return from Exile (Restoration and Hope), Solomon (The King of Peace and Wisdom), Wisdom and Foolishness of the Cross

Chiasms

Shaped 1 Corinthians 01:17–02:2, 1 Corinthians 02:1–03:1