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.


In Context

9 However, as it is written: "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" --

10 but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.

11 The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way 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 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 man without the Spirit 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.

1st 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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:12But 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:

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.