1 Corinthians 2:12

Spiritual Wisdom

11For 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.12We 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. 13And 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.

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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.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
Bible in Basic English
But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God; that we may know the things that are given us from God.
Free Bible Version
For we have received the Spirit from God, not the spirit of this world, so that we could understand what God so generously gave us.
Geneva Bible 1599
Nowe we haue receiued not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit, which is of God, that we might knowe the thinges that are giuen to vs of God.
King James (Authorized) 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.
Plain English Version
And remember this, God didn’t get us to think the way the people of this world think. No. God gave us his spirit, and his spirit helps us, so we can understand all the good things God gave us.
Translation for Translators
It was not the ideas that unbelievers teach that we accepted. Instead, it was the Spirit who came from God that we received, in order that we might know the things that God has freely done for us.
Unlocked Literal Bible
But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we might know the things freely given to us by God.
Noah 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.
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.
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,