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1 Hermanos, cuando fui a ustedes, no fui con palabras elevadas ni con sabiduría humana para anunciarles el testimonio de Dios.
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 Porque decidí no saber entre ustedes cosa alguna, sino a Jesucristo, y a este crucificado.
2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
3 Estuve entre ustedes con debilidad, con temor y con mucho temblor.
3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
4 Mi palabra y mi predicación no fueron con palabras persuasivas de sabiduría humana, sino con demostración del Espíritu y de poder,
4 My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 para que la fe de ustedes no estuviera fundada en la sabiduría de los hombres, sino en el poder de Dios.
5 that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6 Sin embargo, hablamos sabiduría entre los maduros; pero no una sabiduría de este mundo ni de los gobernantes de este mundo, que van desapareciendo.
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 Más bien, hablamos la sabiduría de Dios en misterio, la sabiduría escondida que Dios preparó desde antes de los siglos para nuestra gloria.
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 Ninguno de los gobernantes de este mundo la conoció; porque si la hubieran conocido, no habrían crucificado al Señor de la gloria.
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 Pero como está escrito: Cosas que ojo no vio, ni oído oyó, ni han subido al corazón del hombre, son las que Dios preparó para los que lo aman.
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.”
10 Pero Dios nos las reveló por medio de su Espíritu, porque el Espíritu examina todas las cosas, aun las profundidades de Dios.
10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
11 Porque ¿quién conoce las cosas del hombre, sino el espíritu del hombre que está en él? Así también, nadie conoce las cosas de Dios, sino el Espíritu de Dios.
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 Nosotros no hemos recibido el espíritu del mundo, sino el Espíritu que viene de Dios, para que conozcamos las cosas que Dios nos ha dado gratuitamente.
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 También hablamos de estas cosas, no con palabras enseñadas por sabiduría humana, sino con palabras enseñadas por el Espíritu, explicando cosas espirituales con palabras espirituales.
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 Pero el hombre natural no recibe las cosas del Espíritu de Dios, porque para él son necedad; y no las puede entender, porque se han de discernir espiritualmente.
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 En cambio, el espiritual discierne todas las cosas, pero él no es juzgado por nadie.
15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
16 Porque ¿quién conoció la mente del Señor para instruirlo? Pero nosotros tenemos la mente de Cristo.
16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
Cross references (16)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 2:4; Exodus 4:10; Romans 16:18
  2. 2 Galatians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 1:22–25; Philippians 3:8–10; John 17:3; Galatians 3:1
  3. 3 2 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 4:10–13; 2 Corinthians 12:5–10; 2 Corinthians 13:9; Galatians 4:13–14
  4. 4 1 Corinthians 4:20; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:1; Romans 15:19
  5. 5 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2 Corinthians 6:7; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 3:6
  6. 6 Hebrews 5:14; James 3:15; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 1:28
  7. 7 Colossians 1:26–27; 2 Peter 1:3; Romans 16:25–26; Matthew 11:25; Psalm 78:2
  8. 8 Acts 13:27; James 2:1; Acts 7:2; 1 Corinthians 2:6; Psalm 24:7–10
  9. 9 Isaiah 64:4; Psalm 31:19; James 1:12; Romans 8:28; Isaiah 65:17
  10. 10 John 14:26; Ephesians 3:5; Luke 10:21; John 16:13; Ephesians 3:3
  11. 11 Proverbs 20:27; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Romans 11:33–34; Jeremiah 17:9; Proverbs 14:10
  12. 12 1 John 2:27; Romans 8:5–6; 1 John 2:20; 1 John 5:19–20; 1 John 4:4–5
  13. 13 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 12:1–3
  14. 14 1 Corinthians 1:18; Romans 8:5–8; Matthew 13:11–17; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6; 1 John 2:27
  15. 15 1 Thessalonians 5:21; Hebrews 5:14; Proverbs 28:5; 1 John 4:1; 1 Corinthians 14:37
  16. 16 Isaiah 40:13–14; Romans 11:34; John 16:13–16; John 15:15; Job 15:8

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary 2:1 John Chrysostom, Homilies on First Corinthians (Homily VI)

    Nothing was ever more prepared for combat than the spirit of Paul; or rather, I should say, not his spirit, (for he was not himself the inventor of these things,) but, nothing was ever equal to the grace working within him, which overcometh all things.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)

  2. Quotes verse 2:9 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters XXXIV–XXXIX)

    For [the Scripture] saith, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for them that wait for Him." Chapter XXXV — Immense is this reward.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 2:15 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book I, Chapter VIII)

    … forth the material, animal, and spiritual, saying in one place, "As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy;" and in another place, "But the animal man receiveth not the things of the Spirit;" and again: "He that is spiritual judgeth all things." And this, "The animal man receiveth not the things of the Spirit," they affirm to …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  4. Quotes verse 2:9 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book IX, Chapters IX–X)

    … things which are before," we were seeking between ourselves in the presence of the Truth, which Thou art, of what nature the eternal life of the saints would be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man. But yet we opened wide the mouth of our heart, after those supernal streams of …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  5. Quotes verse 2:9 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XI)

    … in mentioning this, he hath mentioned also the resurrection of our bodies, and the manifestation of His miracles here, and our partaking of His kingdom, and the good things, which "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man." For all these things He bestowed on us by that gift.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)