1 Corinthians 2:11

New English Translation

For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Cross References

Job 15:8

Do you listen in on God’s secret council? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

Proverbs 14:10

The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.

Proverbs 20:27

The human spirit is like the lamp of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts.

Proverbs 20:5

Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

Jeremiah 17:9

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

1 Corinthians 12:8

For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

1 Corinthians 2:10

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.