القراءة بلغتين

وأَنا أَيضًا، لَمَّا أَتَيتُكُم، أَيُّها الإِخوَة، لَمْ آتِكُم لِأُبَلِّغَكُم سِرَّ اللهِ بِسِحْرِ البَيانِ أَوِ الحِكمَة

فإِنِّي لم أَشَأْ أَن أَعرِفَ شَيئًا، وأَنا بَينَكُم، غَيرَ يسوعَ المسيح، بل يسوعَ المسيحَ المَصْلوب

وقَد جِئتُ إِلَيكم وبي ضُعفٌ وخَوفٌ ورِعدَةٌ شَديدة

ولَم يَعتَمِدْ كَلامي وتَبْشيري على أُسلوبِ الإِقناعِ بِالحِكمَة، بل على أَدِلَّةِ الرُّوحِ والقُوَّة

كَيلا يَستَنِدَ إِيمانُكُم إِلى حِكمَةِ النَّاس، بل إِلى قُدرَةِ الله

ومع ذٰلك فإِنَّنا على حِكمَةٍ نَتَكَلَّمُ بَينَ المُؤمِنينَ الرَّاشدين، ولَيسَت بِحِكمَةِ هٰذِه الدُّنْيا ولا بِحِكمَةِ رُؤَساءِ هٰذِهِ الدُّنْيا، ومَصيرُهُم لِلزَّوال

بل نَتَكَلَّمُ على حِكمَةِ اللهِ السِّرِّيَّةِ الَّتي ظَلَّت مَكتومةً في الماضي، تلكَ الَّتي أَعَدَّها اللهُ قَبلَ الدُّهورِ في سَبيلِ مَجْدِنا

ولَم يَعرِفْها أَحَدٌ مِن رُؤَساءِ هٰذِه الدُّنْيا، ولَو عَرَفوها لَما صَلَبوا رَبَّ المَجْد

ولٰكن، كما وَرَدَ في الكِتاب: «ما لم تَرَهُ عَيْنٌ ولا سَمِعَت بِه أُذُنٌ ولا خَطَرَ على قَلْبِ بَشَر، ذٰلك ما أَعدَّه اللهُ لِلَّذينَ يُحِبُّونَه»

فلَنا كَشَفَه اللهُ بِالرُّوح، لِأَنَّ الرُّوحَ يَفحَصُ عن كُلِّ شَيء حتَّى عن أَعماقِ الله

فمَن مِنَ النَّاسِ يَعرِفُ ما في الإِنسانِ غَيرُ روحِ الإِنسانِ الَّذي فيه؟ وكذٰلِكَ ما مِن أَحَدٍ يَعرِفُ ما في اللهِ غيرُ رُوحِ الله

ولَم نَنَلْ نَحْنُ رُوحَ العالَم، بل نِلْنا الرُّوحَ الَّذي أَتى مِنَ الله لِنَعرِفَ ما أَنعَمَ اللهُ بِه علَينا مِنَ المَواهِب

وإِنَّنا لا نَتَكَلَّمُ علَيها بِكَلامٍ مَأخوذٍ مِنَ الحِكمَةِ البَشَرِيَّة، بل بِكَلامٍ مَأخوذٍ عنِ الرُّوح، فنُعَبِّرُ عنِ الأُمورِ الرُّوحِيَّةِ بِعِباراتٍ رُوحِيَّة

فالإِنسانُ البَشَرِيُّ لا يَقبَلُ ما هو مِن رُوحِ الله فإِنَّه حَماقةٌ عِندَه، ولا يَستَطيعُ أَن يَعرِفَه لِأَنَّه لا حُكْمَ في ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا بِالرُّوح

وأَمَّا الإِنسانُ الرُّوحِيّ، فيَحكُمُ في كُلِّ شَيء ولا يَحكُمُ فيه أَحَد

فمَنِ الَّذي عَرَفَ فِكْرَ الرَّبِّ لِيُعَلِّمَه؟ وأَمَّا نَحنُ فلَنا فِكْرُ المسيح

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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.

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

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.”

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.