1 Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
KJV
τίς γὰρ ἔγνω νοῦν κυρίου, ὃς συμβιβάσει αὐτόν; ἡμεῖς δὲ νοῦν Χριστοῦ ἔχομεν.
Greek NT
Quis enim cognovit sensum Domini, qui instruat eum ? nos autem sensum Christi habemus.
Vulgate
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
ASV
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
νοῦς
nous
noun · 24×
συμβιβάζω
sumbibazo
verb · 7×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Isa 40:13 · exact_quote"Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?"Isaiah: who has known the mind of the Lord — Paul: we have the mind of Christ
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. Whence then does He begin? And what kind of foundations of His new polity does He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was spoken unto them, it was written for the sake also of all men afterwards. And accordingly on this account, though He had His disciples in His mind in His public preaching, yet unto them He limits not His sayin…
2. But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery. What mystery? For surely Christ says, Matthew 10:27. ηκούσατε rec. text ἀκούετε What you have heard in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops. How then does he call it a mystery? Because that neither angel nor archangel, nor any other…
1. Jesus Comes to Capernaum. Statements of the Four Evangelists Regarding This. After this John 2:12-25 He went down to Capernaum, He and His mother and His brothers and His disciples; and there they abode not many days. And the passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and He found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers…
Cross-references
- 2Cor 6:6 — By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
- Dan 4:35 — And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto h
- Deut 29:29 — The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
- Eph 3:3 — How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
- Gen 1:12 — And 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.
- Isa 40:13 — Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
- Isa 40:13 — Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
- Isa 40:28 — Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
- Jer 23:18 — For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
- Jer 23:18 — For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
- Job 15:8 — Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
- Job 21:22 — Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
- Job 22:2 — Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
- Job 36:23 — Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
- Job 40:2 — Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
- Job 40:2 — Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.
- John 15:15 — Henceforth 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.
- John 16:13 — Howbeit 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 co
- John 17:6 — I 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.
- Rom 11:34 — For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
- Rom 11:34 — For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?