1 Corinthians 2:11

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The human spirit is like the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
  • Rom 11:33-34 : 33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways! 34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?
  • 1 Cor 2:10 : 10 God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.
  • Prov 20:5 : 5 Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

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    9But just as it is written,“Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”

    10God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

  • 1 Cor 2:12-16
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    12Now 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.

    13And 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.

    14The 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.

    15The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.

    16For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.

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    2If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

    3But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

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    2For the one speaking in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, for no one understands; he is speaking mysteries by the Spirit.

  • Job 32:8
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    8But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

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    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • Eccl 3:21
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    21Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

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    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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    3And I know that this man(whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

  • Rom 11:33-34
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    33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!

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    9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

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    27All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

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    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

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    12For just as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But all things come from God.

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    26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

    27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

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    6We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

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    11The LORD knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

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    27The human spirit is like the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

  • Rom 1:19
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    19because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

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    17the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

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    5So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.

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    16So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.

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    22All things have been given to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.”

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    25He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

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    12For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.

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    3So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says,“Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say,“Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

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    11there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

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    7Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory.

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    2All a person’s ways seem right in his own opinion, but the LORD evaluates the motives.