1 Corinthians 2:12

Believers have received not the world's spirit but God's Spirit, so they may understand what God has freely given. The Spirit enables us to grasp the gifts of grace.

Cross-references · 17

• 1 Jn 2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
• Rom 8:5–6For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
• 1 Jn 2:20But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
• 1 Jn 5:19–20And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
• 1 Jn 4:4–5Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
• John 16:14–15He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
• Rom 8:15–16For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
• Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 4:4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
• Rom 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
• Jas 4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
• Eph 2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
• Rev 22:6And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
• 1 Cor 3:22Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
• 1 Cor 2:6Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
• 1 Cor 1:27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
• Rev 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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