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.
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For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
For 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. …
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. …
In 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. …
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
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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