1 Corinthians 2:6-7
What is written? (ESV)
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
What does it say?
Among the mature, we (apostles) impart a wisdom that is not of this world that is passing away. Instead, we share the once hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
What is its immediate context?
Paul is writing to the church in Corinth dealing with several serious issues throughout the letter, but here dealing with divisions among them and reminding them of the uniting nature of the Gospel. In this chapter, and really including the first four chapters of this letter, he emphasizes the need for them to rely upon the word of God that he had shared with them as the foundation to solve these issues.
How 1 Corinthians 2:6-7 is applied across Bible answers
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There was a wisdom of God which had been "hidden and secret", revealed by the apostles. The implication is that there is still hidden wisdom, that which has not been "imparted".
How does one receive wisdom from God (James 1:5)?
Paul, as a divinely appointed messenger of God, describes the gospel that was preached to the Corinthians as wisdom that is not the wisdom of this world.3
Paul's argument, carried through chapter four, makes the same point as James regarding Godly wisdom for teachers34 (himself in this case). Indeed, "disorder"3 existed at the Corinthian church due to the very "earthly" wisdom James describes3. Paul, on the other hand, taught the purity of God's word "so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God." (2:5)
