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12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
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What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
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This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
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The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.
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The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments,
16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD , THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.
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for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”But we have the mind of Christ.
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