1 Hermanos, cuando los visité, fui a proclamarles el misterio de Dios sin brillantez de oratoria ni vana sabiduría. 2 Solo me propuse reconocer entre ustedes lo relacionado con Jesucristo crucificado. 3 Me presenté ante ustedes con debilidad, temor y mucho temblor. 4 No les prediqué con sabiduría convincente, sino con demostración del poder del Espíritu, 5 para que su fe no se base en [la] sabiduría humana, sino en el poder de Dios. 6 Sin embargo, hablamos sabiduría entre los que son maduros en la fe. No sabiduría de este tiempo, ni de los señores de este mundo que perecen. 7 Hablamos sabiduría oculta de Dios, la escondida, la cual Dios predestinó antes de los siglos para nuestro resplandor, 8 el cual ninguno de los señores de este mundo entendió, porque si [lo] entendieran, no habrían crucificado al Señor de [la] gloria. 9 Pero, como está escrito: Cosas que ojo no vio, ni oído oyó, ni mente pensó, son las que Dios preparó para los que lo aman. 10 Pero Dios nos [las ]reveló por medio del Espíritu, porque [el] Espíritu escudriña todas las cosas, aun las profundidades de Dios. 11 ¿Quién conoce los pensamientos del hombre, sino el espíritu humano que está en él? Asimismo nadie conoce los pensamientos de Dios, sino el Espíritu de Dios. 12 Nosotros no recibimos el espíritu del mundo, sino el Espíritu de Dios, para que sepamos lo que Dios nos concedió. 13 Esto también hablamos al comparar lo espiritual con lo espiritual, no con palabras de sabiduría humana, sino con las que enseña el Espíritu. 14 Pero [la] persona natural no acepta las cosas del Espíritu de Dios, porque para él son locura. No puede entenderlas, pues se evalúan espiritualmente. 15 En cambio, el [hombre] espiritual evalúa todas las cosas, pero a él nadie lo juzga. 16 ¿Quién conoció [la] mente del Señor? ¿Quién lo instruirá? Sin embargo, nosotros tenemos [la] mente de Cristo.
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Cross references (16)
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- 1 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 2:4; Exodus 4:10; Romans 16:18
- 2 Galatians 6:14; 1 Corinthians 1:22–25; Philippians 3:8–10; John 17:3; Galatians 3:1
- 3 2 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Corinthians 4:10–13; 2 Corinthians 12:5–10; 2 Corinthians 13:9; Galatians 4:13–14
- 4 1 Corinthians 4:20; 1 Thessalonians 1:5; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:1; Romans 15:19
- 5 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2 Corinthians 12:9; 2 Corinthians 6:7; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 3:6
- 6 Hebrews 5:14; James 3:15; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 1 Corinthians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 1:28
- 7 Colossians 1:26–27; 2 Peter 1:3; Romans 16:25–26; Matthew 11:25; Psalm 78:2
- 8 Acts 13:27; James 2:1; Acts 7:2; 1 Corinthians 2:6; Psalm 24:7–10
- 9 Isaiah 64:4; Psalm 31:19; James 1:12; Romans 8:28; Isaiah 65:17
- 10 John 14:26; Ephesians 3:5; Luke 10:21; John 16:13; Ephesians 3:3
- 11 Proverbs 20:27; 1 Corinthians 2:10; Romans 11:33–34; Jeremiah 17:9; Proverbs 14:10
- 12 1 John 2:27; Romans 8:5–6; 1 John 2:20; 1 John 5:19–20; 1 John 4:4–5
- 13 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 2:4; 1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 12:1–3
- 14 1 Corinthians 1:18; Romans 8:5–8; Matthew 13:11–17; 2 Corinthians 4:4–6; 1 John 2:27
- 15 1 Thessalonians 5:21; Hebrews 5:14; Proverbs 28:5; 1 John 4:1; 1 Corinthians 14:37
- 16 Isaiah 40:13–14; Romans 11:34; John 16:13–16; John 15:15; Job 15:8
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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)
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.
… 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 …
… 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)
… 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)