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1 Corinthians 2:16
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1 Corinthians 2:16
16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
16*For who hath knowen the mind of the Lord that he †may instruct him? But we haue the mind of Christ.
- Gr. shall.
- Rom. 11.34. esa. 40.13.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Corinthians 2:16
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Thought, understanding, or judgment.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A title of authority applied here to God, Christ, or a male master or ruler, according to the verse.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
To teach, inform, counsel, or direct so as to give understanding.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The Anointed One.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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Open the full verse study13Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counseller hath taught him?
14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
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Open the full verse study34For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?
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Open the full verse study13Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
15All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
16A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.
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Open the full verse study15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
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Open the full verse study8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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Open the full verse study18For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
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Open the full verse study3How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
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Open the full verse study2Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
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Open the full verse study6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
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Open the full verse study2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
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Open the full verse study12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
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