12But 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:


In Context

9 but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him,

10 but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

11 For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God.

12 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:

13 which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means.

14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned;

1 Corinthians 2:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12Now 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:12We 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:12Now 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:12But 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:12But we 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 by God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12Now 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12But 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12And 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:12Now 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.