¹只傳耶穌基督釘十字架弟兄們，我從前到你們那裡去，並沒有用高言大智向你們傳講　神的奧祕。

¹When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

²因為我曾立定主意，在你們中間甚麼都不想知道，只知道耶穌基督和他釘十字架的事。

²For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

³我在你們那裡的時候，又軟弱又懼怕，而且戰戰兢兢；

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

⁴我說的話、講的道，都不是用智慧的話去說服人，而是用聖靈和能力來證明，

⁴My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

⁵使你們的信不是憑著人的智慧，而是憑著　神的能力。

⁵that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

⁶屬靈的人看透萬事然而在信心成熟的人中間，我們也講智慧，但不是這世代的智慧，也不是這世代將要滅亡的執政者的智慧。

⁶We 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我們所講的，是從前隱藏的、　神奧祕的智慧，就是　神在萬世以前，為我們的榮耀所預定的；

⁷But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

⁸這智慧，這世代執政的人沒有一個知道，如果他們知道，就不會把榮耀的主釘在十字架上了。

⁸which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t have crucified the Lord of glory.

⁹正如經上所記：“　神為愛他的人所預備的，是眼睛未曾見過，耳朵未曾聽過，人心也未曾想到的。”

⁹But 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.” Isaiah 64:4

¹⁰但　神卻藉著聖靈把這些向我們顯明了，因為聖靈測透萬事，連　神深奧的事也測透了。

¹⁰But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

¹¹除了在人裡面的靈，誰能知道人的事呢？同樣，除了　神的靈，也沒有人知道　神的事。

¹¹For 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我們所領受的，不是這世界的靈，而是從　神來的靈，使我們能知道　神開恩賜給我們的事。

¹²But 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我們也講這些事，不是用人的智慧所教的言語，而是用聖靈所教的言語，向屬靈的人解釋屬靈的事（“向屬靈的人解釋屬靈的事”或譯：“用屬靈的話解釋屬靈的事”）。

¹³Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

¹⁴然而屬血氣的人不接受　神的靈的事，因為他以為是愚笨的；而且他也不能夠明白，因為這些事，要有屬靈的眼光才能領悟。

¹⁴Now 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屬靈的人能看透萬事，卻沒有人能看透他，

¹⁵But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

¹⁶如經上所記：“誰曾知道主的心意，能夠指教他呢？”但我們已經得著基督的心意了。

¹⁶“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” Isaiah 40:13 But we have Christ’s mind.