Now the natural human doesn’t accept the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to the natural person who can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, Otherwise they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’
Don’t think y’all can say to yourselves*, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell y’all that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
I write to y’all little children, because y’all know the Father. I have written to y’all fathers, because y’all know ʜɪᴍ who is from the beginning. I have written to y’all, young men, because y’all are strong, and the word of God remains in y’all, and y’all have conquered the evil one.