Epistle
1 Corinthians 2.9-3.8
Read in context2:9But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
2:10But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
2:11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
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.
2:13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
2:16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
3:1And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
3:2I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3:3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
3:4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
3:5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
3:6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
3:7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
3:8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.