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Text -- 1 Corinthians 2:12-16 (NET)
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2:12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world , but the Spirit who is from God , so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God .
2:13 And we speak about these things , not with words taught us by human wisdom , but with those taught by the Spirit , explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.
2:14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God , for they are foolishness to him . And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned .
2:15 The one who is spiritual discerns all things , yet he himself is understood by no one .
2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord , so as to advise him ? But we have the mind of Christ .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Wisdom |
CORINTHIANS, FIRST EPISTLE TO THE |
MYSTERY |
Regeneration |
Reasoning |
Holy Spirit |
Word of God |
Blindness |
Spiritual Understanding |
Apostle |
SANCTIFICATION |
SPIRITUALITY |
SPIRITUAL |
Discerning of Spirits |
MAN, NATURAL |
HOLY SPIRIT, 2 |
Preaching |
Righteous |
Quotations and Allusions |
Unbelief |
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NET Notes: 1Co 2:13 Or “combining spiritual things with spiritual words” (i.e., words the Spirit gives, as just described).
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NET Notes: 1Co 2:14 Grk “natural person.” Cf. BDAG 1100 s.v. ψυχικός a, “an unspiritual pers., one who merely functio...
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NET Notes: 1Co 2:15 Or “is evaluated” (i.e., “is subject to evaluation”); Grk “he himself is discerned,” that is, the person without t...
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