¹When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to 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 anything among you, except 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.

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

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

⁴My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human 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 wouldn’t 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.

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.

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

⁷But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for 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 rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn’t 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, “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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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