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that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_corinthians/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? 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