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12 The messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, “Look, the words of the prophets with one accord are favorable to the king; let your word be like the word of one of them, and speak favorably.”

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14 Those who are unspiritual[a] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(A) 15 Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.

16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”

But we have the mind of Christ.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.14 Or natural

11 If someone were to go about uttering empty falsehoods,
    saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”
    such a one would be the preacher for this people!(A)

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“Do not preach”—thus they preach—
    “one should not preach of such things;
    disgrace will not overtake us.”(A)

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13 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”(A)

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By their wickedness they make the king glad,
    and the officials by their treachery.

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10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
    and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things;
    prophesy illusions;(A)

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11 They think in their heart, “God has forgotten;
    he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”(A)

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13 Therefore you say, ‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through the deep darkness?(A)

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they gathered together with one accord to fight Joshua and Israel.

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