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

¹Tudi jaz, ko sem prišel k vam, bratje, nisem prišel z visokostjo besede ali modrosti oznanjevat vam pričevanja Božjega.

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

²Odločil sem se namreč, da ne bom vedel kaj drugega med vami razen Jezusa Kristusa in tega na križ razpetega.

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

³In bil sem pri vas v slabosti in v strahu in mnogem trepetu.

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

⁴In govor moj in propovedovanje moje ni bilo v prepričevalnih besedah človeške modrosti, temuč v dokazovanju Duha in moči,

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

⁵da bi vera vaša ne slonela na modrosti človeški, ampak na moči Božji.

⁶Howbeit 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:

⁶Vendar pa modrost govorimo med popolnimi, a ne modrosti tega sveta niti poglavarjev tega sveta, kateri ginejo;

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

⁷marveč govorimo modrost Božjo v skrivnosti, tisto skrito modrost, ki jo je naprej odločil Bog pred veki za našo slavo,

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

⁸ki je ni nihče izmed poglavarjev tega sveta spoznal; ker ko bi jo bili spoznali, ne bi bili Gospoda slave razpeli na križ; temuč kakor je pisano:

⁹But 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.

⁹„Česar oko ni videlo in uho ni slišalo in kar v srce človeku ni prišlo, to je pripravil Bog tem, kateri ga ljubijo“.

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

¹⁰Nam pa je to Bog razodel po Duhu svojem; kajti Duh vse preiskuje, tudi globočine Božje.

¹¹For 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.

¹¹Kajti kdo ve izmed ljudi, kaj je v človeku, razen človekovega duha, ki je v njem? Tako tudi ne ve nihče, kaj je v Bogu, razen le Božji Duh.

¹²Now 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.

¹²Mi pa nismo prejeli duha tega sveta, ampak Duha, ki je iz Boga, da vemo, kaj nam je milostno daroval Bog;

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

¹³to tudi govorimo, ne v besedah, ki jih uči človeška modrost, temuč v teh, ki jih uči Duh, in duhovne stvari skladamo [Ali: primerjamo, sodimo.] z duhovnimi.

¹⁴But 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.

¹⁴Telesni človek pa ne sprejema, kar je Duha Božjega, ker mu je neumnost in ne more tega umeti, ker se mora duhovno razsojati.

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

¹⁵Duhovni človek pa razsoja vse; a njega samega ne razsoja nihče.Kajti „kdo je spoznal um Gospodov, da bi ga poučil?“ Mi pa imamo um Kristusov.

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

¹⁶Kajti „kdo je spoznal um Gospodov, da bi ga poučil?“ Mi pa imamo um Kristusov.