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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! …
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-16)In this part of the chapter the apostle shows them that though he had not come to them with the excellency of human wisdom, with any of the boasted knowledge and literature of the Jews or Greeks, yet he had communicated to them a treasure of the truest and the highest wisdom: We speak wisdom among those who are perfect (1 Cor. 2:6), among those who are well instructed in Christianity, and come to…
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