1 Corinthians 2 NKJV

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for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But as it is written:</span></p><div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text 1Cor-2-9"><span class="oblique">“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,</span></span><br /><span class="text 1Cor-2-9"><span class="oblique">Nor have entered into the heart of man</span></span><br /><span class="text 1Cor-2-9"><span class="oblique">The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”</span></span></p></div> <p class="first-line-none top-1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But God has revealed <i>them</i> to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For what man 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 the Spirit of God. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know <i>them,</i> because they are spiritually discerned. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is <i>rightly</i> judged by no one. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For <span class="oblique">“who has known the mind of the</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> <span class="oblique">that he may instruct Him?”</span> But we have the mind of Christ.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-28396a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 2:1">1 Corinthians 2:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU <i>mystery</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28399b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 2:4">1 Corinthians 2:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>human</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28402c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 2:7">1 Corinthians 2:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>predetermined</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-28408d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to 1 Corinthians 2:13">1 Corinthians 2:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>NU omits <i>Holy</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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