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Now the natural person does not accept what pertains to the Spirit of God, for to him it is foolishness, and he cannot understand it, because it is judged spiritually. New Revised Standard Version Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit...
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1 Corinthians 2:14. But the natural man — The man who has...
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and the natural man doth not receive the things of the...
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Jan 4, 2022 · In 1 Corinthians 2, Paul uses the word natural to refer to someone still in his original (sinful) state. The Greek word psuchikos (“natural”) can be defined as “animal,” as opposed to “spiritual.”. Natural men are those who are occupied with the things of this material world to the exclusion of the things of God.
1 Corinthians 3. Romans 8:5-10. King James Version. 5 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. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the ...
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This verse means that without the Holy Spirit, people cannot understand scripture. This verse is a famous Calvinist proof text that is used to support their belief that a person cannot receive Jesus unless God’s grace first allows them to do so. To Calvinists, this verse means that man is too depraved to understand scripture. The reason why the Cal...
#1 “The person without the Spirit…” Calvinists argue this refers to a lost or unsaved person. The accurate non-Calvinist interpretation is that this refers to a Christian who is carnal, animalistic, or corrupt. In some translations, this part of the verse reads “the natural man.” Paul is talking to Christians that are “babes in Christ” (1 Corinthia...
NIV The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. NLT But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for...
1 Corinthians 2:14. ESV The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. NIV The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand ...
1 Corinthians 2:14. But the natural man — The man who has only the powers of nature, the faculties derived from Adam, but not a supernatural principle of saving grace; who has a soul in his body, (as the word ψυχικος, derived from ψυχη, a soul, implies,) but no divine inspiration in that soul; or who is not truly enlightened and renewed by the Word and Spirit of God, and therefore ...
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1 Corinthians 2:14. But the natural man Not a babe in Christ, one that is newly born again, for though such have but little knowledge of spiritual things, yet they have a taste, and do relish and desire, and receive the sincere milk of the word, and grow thereby; but an unregenerate man, that has no knowledge at all of such things; not an unregenerate man only, who is openly and notoriously ...
