1 Corinthians 2:11

World English Bible (2000)

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:27 : 27 The spirit of man is Yahweh's lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
  • Rom 11:33-34 : 33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out! 34 "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
  • 1 Cor 2:10 : 10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
  • Prov 20:5 : 5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

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    12 But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

    13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

    14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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