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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Corinthians 2:14 in context
1 Corinthians 2:11–16
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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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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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We also speak these things, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
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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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But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
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“For who has known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.
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