1 Corinthians 2:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.
  • 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
  • 1 John 4:4-5 : 4 You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.
  • 1 John 2:20 : 20 Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.
  • John 16:14-15 : 14 He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you. 15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.
  • Rom 8:1 : 1 The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
  • Rom 8:5-6 : 5 For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit. 6 For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,
  • Rom 8:15-16 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
  • 1 Cor 1:27 : 27 But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.
  • 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 Wisdom from God Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.
  • 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. Everything belongs to you,
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of those who do not believe so they would not see the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.
  • Eph 2:2 : 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?
  • Rev 22:6 : 6 A Final Reminder Then the angel said to me,“These words are reliable and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his servants what must happen soon.”
  • Rev 12:9 : 9 So that huge dragon– the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world– was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

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  • 1 Cor 2:13-16
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    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.

    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.

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

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

  • 1 Cor 2:9-11
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    9 But 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.”

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

    11 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.

  • 1 John 4:5-6
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    5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

    6 We 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.

  • 1 John 4:13
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    13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 2 Tim 1:7
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    7 For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

  • Rom 8:15-16
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    15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”

    16 The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

  • 1 Cor 12:8
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    8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

  • 1 John 4:2-3
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    2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

    3 but every spirit that refuses to confess Jesus, that spirit is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now is already in the world.

  • 1 Cor 12:3-4
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    3 So 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.

    4 Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

  • 2 Pet 1:3
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    3 Believers’ Salvation and the Work of God I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.

  • 2 Cor 3:6
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    6 who made us adequate to be servants of a new covenant not based on the letter but on the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

  • 1 Thess 4:8
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    8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

  • 1 Thess 2:13
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    13 And so we too constantly thank God that when you received God’s message that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human message, but as it truly is, God’s message, which is at work among you who believe.

  • 1 John 2:15-16
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    15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

    16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

  • Rom 8:9
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    9 You, 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.

  • 2 Cor 1:22
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    22 who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

  • 1 John 2:20
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    20 Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

  • Eph 1:17
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    17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

  • 2 Cor 5:5
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    5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

  • 2 Cor 3:17
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    17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.

  • 1 Thess 2:4
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    4 but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we declare it, not to please people but God, who examines our hearts.

  • 1 Cor 2:6-7
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    6 Wisdom from God Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing.

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

  • 1 Thess 1:5
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    5 in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction(surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).

  • Rom 8:5
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    5 For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

  • Rom 12:2
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    2 Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God– what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.

  • Eph 3:5
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    5 (which was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit),

  • 1 Cor 3:16
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    16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

  • 2 Cor 4:7
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    7 An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

  • John 3:34
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    34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

  • Gal 1:12
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    12 For I did not receive it or learn it from any human source; instead I received it by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 4:7
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    7 For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

  • John 1:16
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    16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

  • 2 Cor 2:17
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    17 For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

  • 1 Cor 12:13
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    13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free, we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.

  • John 1:13
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    13 – children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband’s decision, but by God.

  • 1 Cor 8:3
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    3 But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

  • 1 Thess 2:6
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    6 nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

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