1 Corinthians 2:12-3:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. 13 And we speak of these things in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual things to those who are spiritual.[a](A)
14 Those who are unspiritual[b] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(B) 15 Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.
16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord
so as to instruct him?”
But we have the mind of Christ.(C)
On Divisions in the Corinthian Church
3 And so, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people but rather as fleshly, as infants in Christ.(D) 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,(E) 3 for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling[c] among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?(F) 4 For when one says, “I belong to Paul,” and another, “I belong to Apollos,” are you not all too human?(G)
5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and each will receive wages according to their own labor.(H) 9 For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.(I)
10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.(J) 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.(K)
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