“But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Corinthians 2 contains 16 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.