1 Corinthians 2:12

New Testament · SCRIPTURE

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BSB

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.

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KJV

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.

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WEB

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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ASV

American Standard Version

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 of God.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

Now we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, so that we may know the [things] having been graciously given to us by God,

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

1 Corinthians 2

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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