I Corinthians 2:10-3:8 (6th Wednesday after Pentecost)
BRETHREN, God has
revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything,
even the depths of God.
For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man
which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except
the Spirit of God.
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by
God.
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by
the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the
Spirit.
The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God,
for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them
because they are spiritually discerned.
The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by
no one.
"For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But
we have the mind of Christ.
But I,
brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as men of the
flesh, as babes in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it;
and even yet you are not ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and
strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary
men? For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to
Apol'los," are you not merely men? What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God
who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive
his wages according to his labor.
