1 Corinthians 2:12

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

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10 But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

11 For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

12 We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.

14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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1 Corinthians 2:12 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
KJV King James Version: Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
WEB World English Bible: But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
ASV American Standard Version: But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us of God.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that [is] of God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,
DBY Darby Translation: But we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which [is] of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God:
WBS Webster Bible: Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is from God; that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.