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1 Corinthians 2:6-16 NIV
6 We do, however, speak a
message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age
or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 No, we speak of God's secret
wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our
glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this
age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified
the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written:
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God
has prepared for those who love him"—
10 but God has revealed it to
us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep
things of God.
11 For who among men knows the
thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same
way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
12 We have not received the
spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may
understand what God has freely given us.
13 This is what we speak, not
in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the
Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
14 The man without the Spirit
does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for
they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because
they are spiritually discerned.
15 The spiritual man makes
judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any
man's judgment:
16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?"
But we have the mind of Christ. |
