Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: 1 Corinthians | Page 2

Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 001:025 Because that which the world deems foolish in God is wiser than men's wisdom, and that which it deems feeble in God is mightier than men's might. 001:026 For consider, brethren, God's call to you. Not many who are wise with merely human wisdom, not many of position and influence, not many of noble birth have been called. 001:027 But God has chosen the things which the world regards as foolish, in order to put its wise men to shame; and God has chosen the things which the world regards as destitute of influence, in order to put its powerful things to shame; 001:028 and the things which the world regards as base, and those which it sets utterly at nought--things that have no existence-- God has chosen in order to reduce to nothing things that do exist; 001:029 to prevent any mortal man from boasting in the presence of God. 001:030 But you--and it is all God's doing--are in Christ Jesus: He has become for us a wisdom which is from God, consisting of righteousness and sanctification and deliverance; 001:031 in order that it may be as Scripture says, "He who boasts-- let his boast be in the Lord." 002:001 And as for myself, brethren, when I came to you, it was not with surpassing power of eloquence or earthly wisdom that I came, announcing to you that which God had commanded me to bear witness to. 002:002 For I determined to be utterly ignorant, when among you, of everything except of Jesus Christ, and of Him as having been crucified. 002:003 And so far as I myself was concerned, I came to you in conscious feebleness and in fear and in deep anxiety. 002:004 And my language and the Message that I proclaimed were not adorned with persuasive words of earthly wisdom, but depended upon truths which the Spirit taught and mightily carried home; 002:005 so that your trust might rest not on the wisdom of man but on the power of God. 002:006 Yet when we are among mature believers we do speak words of wisdom; a wisdom not belonging, however, to the present age nor to the leaders of the present age who are soon to pass away. 002:007 But in dealing with truths hitherto kept secret we speak of God's wisdom--that hidden wisdom which, before the world began, God pre-destined, so that it should result in glory to us; 002:008 a wisdom which not one of the leaders of the present age possesses, for if they had possessed it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. 002:009 But--to use the words of Scripture--we speak of things which eye has not seen nor ear heard, and which have never entered the heart of man: all that God has in readiness for them that love Him. 002:010 For us, however, God has drawn aside the veil through the teaching of the Spirit; for the Spirit searches everything, including the depths of the divine nature. 002:011 For, among human beings, who knows a man's inner thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? In the same way, also, only God's Spirit is acquainted with God's inner thoughts. 002:012 But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may know the blessings that have been so freely given to us by God. 002:013 Of these we speak--not in language which man's wisdom teaches us, but in that which the Spirit teaches--adapting, as we do, spiritual words to spiritual truths. 002:014 The unspiritual man rejects the things of the Spirit of God, and cannot attain to the knowledge of them, because they are spiritually judged. 002:015 But the spiritual man judges of everything, although he is himself judged by no one. 002:016 For who has penetrated the mind of the Lord, and will instruct Him? But *we* have the mind of Christ. 003:001 And as for myself, brethren, I found it impossible to speak to you as spiritual men. It had to be as to worldlings-- mere babes in Christ. 003:002 I fed you with milk and not with solid food, since for this you were not yet strong enough. And even now you are not strong enough: 003:003 you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world? 003:004 For when some one says, "I belong to Paul," and another says, "I belong to Apollos," is not this the way men of the world speak? 003:005 What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are just God's servants, through whose