Epistle to Corinthians

Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians

Compiled by WD Kemner August 2024

1 Corinthians Chapter 2 Overview

Revelation by the Spirit

1 Corinthians Chapter 2 verses 1-5

1 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Paul visited the Corinthians not as a great orator but as a man sharing the message of the crucified Christ.

1 Corinthians Chapter 2 verses 6-8

Concordance: Preaching; Speaking Wisdom

6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Speaking the wisdom of God, not the wisdom of this world. This world’s message will come to nothing. If the world had the wisdom that God has, they would never have allowed the crucifixion to have occurred. The crucifixion CHANGED everything.

1 Corinthians Chapter 2 verses 9-13

Concordance: Revelation through the Spirit

9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

Verse 9: taken from Isaiah 64:4

Life in the Spirit brings with it revelation. The more time spent with the Master the clearer the picture becomes.

1 Corinthians Chapter 2 verses 14-16

Concordance: the Spirit

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

The reason the world cannot see, let alone understand the things of God. This is unfortunately the state of many self-claimed “Christians”.