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14 An unspiritual person refuses to accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him such things are foolish. He is unable to understand them because they can be discerned only in a spiritual way. 15 A spiritual person[a] discerns all things, and he is himself subject to no one else’s judgment:

16 “For who has ever known the mind of the Lord?
    Who has ever been his instructor?”

But we possess the mind of Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 2:15 Unspiritual person . . . spiritual person: an unspiritual person is one who follows mere natural human instincts (see Rom 8:9; Jude 19); a spiritual person is one who follows the Spirit of God. The former lives according to the “natural” order and the latter according to the “supernatural” order.