1 Corinthians 2:14

God's Word

A person who isn’t spiritual doesn’t accept the teachings of God’s Spirit. He thinks they’re nonsense. He can’t understand them because a person must be spiritual to evaluate them.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:6

A mocker searches for wisdom without finding it, but knowledge comes easily to a person who has understanding.

Matthew 16:23

But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get out of my way, Satan! You are tempting me to sin. You aren’t thinking the way God thinks but the way humans think.”

John 10:20

Many of them said, “He’s possessed by a demon! He’s crazy! Why do you listen to him?”

John 12:37

Although they had seen Jesus perform so many miracles, they wouldn’t believe in him.

John 14:17

That helper is the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot accept him, because it doesn’t see or know him. You know him, because he lives with you and will be in you.

John 14:26

However, the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything. He will remind you of everything that I have ever told you.

John 15:26

“The helper whom I will send to you from the Father will come. This helper, the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, will declare the truth about me.

John 5:44

How can you believe when you accept each other’s praise and don’t look for the praise that comes from the only God?

John 8:43

Why don’t you understand the language I use? Is it because you can’t understand the words I use?

Acts 16:14

A woman named Lydia was present. She was a convert to Judaism from the city of Thyatira and sold purple dye for a living. She was listening because the Lord made her willing to pay attention to what Paul said.

Acts 17:18

Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers had discussions with him. Some asked, “What is this babbling fool trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be speaking about foreign gods.” The philosophers said these things because Paul was telling the Good News about Jesus and saying that people would come back to life.

Acts 17:32

When the people of the court heard that a person had come back to life, some began joking about it, while others said, “We’ll hear you talk about this some other time.”

Acts 18:15

But since you’re disputing words, names, and your own teachings, you’ll have to take care of that yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge who gets involved in those things.”

Acts 25:19

They were disputing with him about their own religion and about some man named Jesus who had died. But Paul claimed that Jesus is alive.

1 Corinthians 1:18

The message about the cross is nonsense to those who are being destroyed, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.

1 Corinthians 1:21

The world with its wisdom was unable to recognize God in terms of his own wisdom. So God decided to use the nonsense of the Good News we speak to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 1:23

but our message is that Christ was crucified. This offends Jewish people and makes no sense to people who are not Jewish.

1 Corinthians 1:25

God’s nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

1 Corinthians 15:44

It is planted as a physical body. It comes back to life as a spiritual body. As there is a physical body, so there is also a spiritual body.

1 Corinthians 15:46

The spiritual does not come first, but the physical and then the spiritual.

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now, we didn’t receive the spirit that belongs to the world. Instead, we received the Spirit who comes from God so that we could know the things which God has freely given us.

1 Corinthians 3:1

Brothers and sisters, I couldn’t talk to you as spiritual people but as people still influenced by your corrupt nature. You were infants in your faith in Christ.

James 3:15

That kind of wisdom doesn’t come from above. It belongs to this world. It is self-centered and demonic.

1 John 2:20

The Holy One has anointed you, so all of you have knowledge.

1 John 2:27

The anointing you received from Christ lives in you. You don’t need anyone to teach you something else. Instead, Christ’s anointing teaches you about everything. His anointing is true and contains no lie. So live in Christ as he taught you to do.

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we know the real God. We are in the one who is real, his Son Jesus Christ. This Jesus Christ is the real God and eternal life.

Jude 1:19

These are the people who cause divisions. They are concerned about physical things, not spiritual things.