传扬钉十字架的基督
弟兄们，从前我到你们那里去，并没有用高言大智对你们宣讲神的奥秘。
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因为我曾定了主意，在你们中间不知道别的，只知道耶稣基督并他钉十字架。For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3我在你们那里时，又软弱，又惧怕，又战战兢兢。And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
4我说的话、讲的道不是用委婉智慧的言语☛“委婉智慧的言语”：有古卷是“委婉的智慧”；另有古卷是“人委婉智慧的言语”。，而是以圣灵的大能来证明，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为要使你们的信不靠着人的智慧，而是靠着神的大能。神之灵的启示
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6然而，在成熟的人中，我们也讲智慧，但不是今世的智慧，也不是今世有权有位、将要灭亡的人的智慧。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我们讲的是从前隐藏的、神奥秘的智慧，就是神在万世以前预定使我们得荣耀的智慧；But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
8这智慧，今世有权有位的人没有一个知道，若知道，他们就不会把荣耀的主钉在十字架上了。Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9如经上所记： “神为爱他的人所预备的 是眼睛未曾看见，耳朵未曾听见， 人心也未曾想到的。”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只有神藉着圣灵把这事向我们显明了；因为圣灵参透万事，就是神深奥的事也参透了。But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11除了在人里头的灵，谁知道人的事？照样，除了神的灵，也没有人知道神的事。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我们所领受的并不是世上的灵，而是从神来的灵，为使我们知道神把恩赐赏给我们的事。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我们也讲说这些事，不是用人的智慧所教的言语，而是用圣灵所教的言语，用属灵的话解释属灵的事☛“用属灵的话解释属灵的事”或译“把属灵的事讲给属灵的人”。。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.
14然而，属血气的人不接受神的灵的事，他反倒以这为愚拙，并且他不能了解，因为这些事惟有属灵的人才能领悟。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属灵的人能看透万事，却没有一人能看透他。But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
16“谁曾知道主的心？ 谁会教导他？”至于我们，我们有基督的心。For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.