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1 Corinthians 2:12
1 Corinthians 2:12 is verse 12 of 1 Corinthians chapter 2, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
King James Version
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
World English Bible
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.
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1 Corinthians 2:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, 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 And 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 natural man 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 2:6Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
Romans 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Romans 8:5Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,
2 Corinthians 4:4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Ephesians 2:2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
James 4:5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
1 John 4:4You, little children, are from God and have overcome them, because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:5They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
1 John 5:19We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Romans 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:16The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
1 Corinthians 3:22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,
John 16:14He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.
John 16:15Everything that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said that the Spirit will take from what is Mine and disclose it to you.
Romans 8:32He 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 John 2:20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
1 John 2:27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
1 John 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Revelation 22:6Then the angel said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent His angel to show His servants what must soon take place.”