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11 No one can know a person’s thoughts except that person’s own spirit, and no one can know God’s thoughts except God’s own Spirit.

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11 For who knows a person’s thoughts(A) except their own spirit(B) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

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27 The Lord’s light penetrates the human spirit,[a]
    exposing every hidden motive.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:27 Or The human spirit is the Lord’s light.

27 The human spirit is[a] the lamp of the Lord(A)
    that sheds light on one’s inmost being.(B)

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  1. Proverbs 20:27 Or A person’s words are

33 Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!

34 For who can know the Lord’s thoughts?
    Who knows enough to give him advice?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 11:34 Isa 40:13 (Greek version).

Doxology

33 Oh, the depth of the riches(A) of the wisdom and[a] knowledge of God!(B)
    How unsearchable his judgments,
    and his paths beyond tracing out!(C)
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”[b](D)

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  1. Romans 11:33 Or riches and the wisdom and the
  2. Romans 11:34 Isaiah 40:13

10 But[a] it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.

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  1. 2:10 Some manuscripts read For.

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

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

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“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
    and desperately wicked.
    Who really knows how bad it is?

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The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
    and beyond cure.
    Who can understand it?

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10 Each heart knows its own bitterness,
    and no one else can fully share its joy.

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10 Each heart knows its own bitterness,
    and no one else can share its joy.

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Though good advice lies deep within the heart,
    a person with understanding will draw it out.

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The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters,(A)
    but one who has insight draws them out.

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