The Spirit understands all things. He understands even the deep things of God. ¹¹Who can know the thoughts of another person? Only a person’s own spirit can know them. In the same way, only the Spirit of God knows God’s thoughts.

¹²We have not received the spirit of the world. We have received the Spirit who is from God. The Spirit helps us understand what God has freely given us.

¹³That is what we speak about. We don’t use words taught to us by people. We use words taught to us by the Holy Spirit. We use the words of the Spirit to teach the truths of the Spirit.

¹⁴Some people don’t have the Holy Spirit. They don’t accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. Things like that are foolish to them. They can’t understand them. In fact, such things can’t be understood without the Spirit’s help.

¹⁵Everyone who has the Spirit can judge all things. But no one can judge those who have the Spirit. It is written,

¹⁶“Who can ever know what is in the Lord’s mind?

Can anyone ever teach him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.

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1 Corinthians 2:12: Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.