13 We also speak these things, not in words(A) taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.[a] 14 But the person without the Spirit[b] does not receive what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated[c] spiritually. 15 The spiritual person, however, can evaluate[d] everything, and yet he himself cannot be evaluated by anyone. 16 For

who has known the Lord’s mind,
that he may instruct him?[e](B)

But we have the mind of Christ.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:13 Or things with spiritual words
  2. 2:14 Lit natural person
  3. 2:14 Or judged, or discerned, also in v. 15
  4. 2:15 Or judge, or discern
  5. 2:16 Is 40:13

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