1 Corinthians 2:11 - Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

1 Corinthians 2:11

9 But as it is written:
^a“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

10 But ^aGod has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

11 For what man knows the things of a man except the ^aspirit of the man which is in him? ^bEven so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but ^athe Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the¹ Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14 ^aBut the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

16 For ^a“who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” ^bBut we have the mind of Christ.

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1 Corinthians 2:11

Knoweth (oiden, egnwken). Second perfect of root id-, to see and so know, first perfect of ginwskw, to know by personal experience, has come to know and still knows. See First John for a clear distinction in the use of oida and ginwskw.

The spirit of man that is in him (to pneuma tou anqrwpou to en autw). The self-consciousness of man that resides in the man or woman (generic term for mankind, anqrwpov).

The Spirit of God (to pneuma tou qeou). Note the absence of to en autw. It is not the mere self-consciousness of God, but the personal Holy Spirit in his relation to God the Father. Paul's analogy between the spirit of man and the Spirit of God does not hold clear through and he guards it at this vital point as he does elsewhere as in Romans 8:26 and in the full Trinitarian benediction in II Corinthians 13:13. Pneuma in itself merely means breath or wind as in John 3:8. To know accurately Paul's use of the word in every instance calls for an adequate knowledge of his theology, and psychology. But the point here is plain. God's Holy Spirit is amply qualified to make the revelation claimed here in verses I Corinthians 2:6-10.

Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 2:11:

1 Corinthians 2:16
1 Thessalonians 5:23

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