¹² What we have received is not the spirit^(A) of the world,^(B) 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^(C) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.^{[a] 14} The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God^(D) but considers them foolishness,^(E) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. ¹⁵ The person with the Spirit^(F) 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.^(H)

The Church and Its Leaders

3 Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit^(I) but as people who are still worldly^(J)—mere infants^(K) in Christ. ² I gave you milk, not solid food,^(L) for you were not yet ready for it.^(M) Indeed, you are still not ready. ³ You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling^(N) among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?