1 Corinthians 2:9-16

English Standard Version

⁹But, as it is written,

^(A)“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has ^(B)prepared ^(C)for those who love him”—

¹⁰these things ^(D)God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even ^(E)the depths of God. ¹¹For who knows a person's thoughts ^(F)except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹²Now ^(G)we have received not ^(H)the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. ¹³And we impart this ^(I)in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, ^(J)interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.^[a]

¹⁴The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are ^(K)folly to him, and ^(L)he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵The ^(M)spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ¹⁶^(N)“For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But ^(O)we have the mind of Christ.