1 Corinthians 2:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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  • 1 Cor 1:17 : 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel– and not with clever speech, so that the cross of Christ would not become useless.
  • 1 Cor 2:4 : 4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 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.
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
  • 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 They were shown that they were serving not themselves but you, in regard to the things now announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven– things angels long to catch a glimpse of.
  • 2 Pet 1:16 : 16 For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return of our Lord Jesus Christ; no, we were eyewitnesses of his grandeur.
  • 1 Cor 9:11 : 11 If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?
  • 1 Cor 10:3-5 : 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they were all drinking from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5 But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.
  • 1 Cor 12:1-3 : 1 Spiritual Gifts With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols, however you were led. 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.
  • 1 Cor 14:2 : 2 For 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.
  • Eph 5:19 : 19 speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music in your hearts to the Lord,
  • 1 Cor 2:1 : 1 When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God.
  • Luke 12:12 : 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”
  • Acts 2:4 : 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

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    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.

    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.

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    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.

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    4 My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

    5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

    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.

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    2 For 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.

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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.

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    5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

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    20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

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    15 What should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind.

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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.

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    14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

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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.

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    46 However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

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

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    12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”

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    9 It is the same for you. If you do not speak clearly with your tongue, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be speaking into the air.

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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.

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    6 I have applied these things to myself and Apollos because of you, brothers and sisters, so that through us you may learn“not to go beyond what is written,” so that none of you will be puffed up in favor of the one against the other.

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    19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

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    1 Immaturity and Self-deception So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

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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.

  • 2 Cor 4:2
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    2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.

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    12 Paul’s Mission For we would not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who recommend themselves. But when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

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    3 For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards,

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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,

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    15 I am speaking to thoughtful people. Consider what I say.

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

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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.

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    13 But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written,“I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.

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    11 If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

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    7 Think about what I am saying and the Lord will give you understanding of all this.

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    15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying,

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    15 Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.

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    26 In 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.

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