Section 2:1–16

It is the Holy Spirit who makes people truly wise

2:1a When I came to you, brothers,

My fellow believers, when I arrived in your city,
-or-
And as for me, my Christian brothers and sisters, when I came to ⌊Corinth⌋,

2:1b I did not come with eloquence or wisdom

I did not speak to you using important-sounding speech and I did not try to sound wise
-or-
I did not use big/fancy words, and I did no talk to you as though I knew more than others

2:1c as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.

(New Revised Standard Version) proclaiming the mystery of God to you

as I declared to you the mystery of God.
-or-
as I preached to you God’s hidden/secret message.

© 1998, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 by SIL International®
Made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License (CC BY-SA) creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
All Scripture quotations in this publication, unless otherwise indicated, are from The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible.
BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee.