NRSV Text: 1 Corinthians 2:12-16;

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Those who are unspiritual 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.
  4. Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.
  5. ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.