⁹ However, as it is written:

¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed^(B) to us by his Spirit.^(C)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts^(D) except their own spirit^(E) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² What we have received is not the spirit^(F) of the world,^(G) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom^(H) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.^{[b] 14} The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(I) but considers them foolishness,^(J) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ The person with the Spirit^(K) makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, ¹⁶ for,

But we have the mind of Christ.^(M)

The Church and Its Leaders

3 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit^(N) but as people who are still worldly^(O)—mere infants^(P) in Christ. ² I gave you milk, not solid food,^(Q) for you were not yet ready for it.^(R) Indeed, you are still not ready.