^{12 Ref} Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

^{13 Ref} Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

^{14 Ref} But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.