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••• You should recognize and know "and use" God's Hebrew Name! It is יהוה and sounds like
to English speakers... God Himself wrote with his own finger on stone tablets He then gave to Moses. (Exo 31:18) Using the Diving Name of our Creator is a uniting force in this divided world! •••
We put on the mind of Christ by simply taking in God's Spirit contained in the words God sent Jesus to bring. (John 6:63)
1 Corinthians 2:14-3:7 CEV (14) That's why only someone who has God's Spirit can understand spiritual blessings. Anyone who doesn't have God's Spirit thinks these blessings are foolish. (15) People who are guided by the Spirit can make all kinds of judgments, but they cannot be judged by others. (16) The Scriptures ask, "Has anyone ever known the thoughts of the Lord (יהוה) or given him advice?" But we [do] understand what Christ is thinking [or we do have the mind of Christ]. 1 Corinthians 3:1-7 CEV (1) My friends, you are acting like the people of this world. That's why I could not speak to you as spiritual people. You are like babies as far as your faith in Christ is concerned. (2) So I had to treat you like babies and feed you milk. You could not take solid food, and you still cannot, (3) because you are not yet spiritual. You are jealous and argue with each other. This proves that you are not spiritual and that you are acting like the people of this world. (4) Some of you say that you follow me, and others claim to follow Apollos. Isn't that how ordinary people behave? (5) Apollos and I are merely servants who helped you to have faith [in Christ]. It was the Lord (יהוה) who made it all happen. (6) I planted the seeds, Apollos watered them, but God made them sprout and grow. (7) What matters isn't those who planted or watered, but God who made the plants grow.
1 Corinthians 2:14-3:7 GNB (14) Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they seem to be nonsense, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis. (15) Whoever has the Spirit, however, is able to judge the value of everything, but no one is able to judge him. (16) As the scripture says, "Who knows the mind of the Lord (יהוה)? Who is able to give him advice?" We, however, have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:1-7 GNB (1) As a matter of fact, my friends, I could not talk to you as I talk to people who have the Spirit; I had to talk to you as though you belonged to this world, as children in the Christian faith. (2) I had to feed you milk, not solid food, because you were not ready for it. And even now you are not ready for it, (3) because you still live as the people of this world live. When there is jealousy among you and you quarrel with one another, doesn't this prove that you belong to this world, living by its standards? (4) When one of you says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos"---aren't you acting like worldly people? (5) After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? We are simply God's servants, by whom you were led to believe. Each one of us does the work which the Lord gave him to do: (6) I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plant, but it was God (יהוה) who made the plant grow. (7) The one who plants and the one who waters really do not matter. It is God who matters, because he makes the plant grow.
1 Corinthians 2:14-3:7 NWT 14 But a physical man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot get to know [them], because they are examined spiritually. 15 However, the spiritual man examines indeed all things, but he himself is not examined by any man. 16 For “who has come to know the mind of Jehovah (יהוה), that he may instruct him?” But we do have the mind of Christ. 3:1 And so, brothers, I was not able to speak to YOU as to spiritual men, but as to fleshly men, as to babes in Christ. 2 I fed YOU milk, not something to eat, for YOU were not yet strong enough. In fact, neither are YOU strong enough now, 3 for YOU are yet fleshly. For whereas there are jealousy and strife among YOU, are YOU not fleshly and are YOU not walking as men do? 4 For when one says: “I belong to Paul,” but another says: “I to A·pol´los,” are YOU not simply men? 5 What, then, is A·pol´los? Yes, what is Paul? Ministers through whom YOU became believers, even as the Lord granted each one. 6 I planted, A·pol´los watered, but God (יהוה) kept making [it] grow; 7 so that neither is he that plants anything nor is he that waters, but God who makes [it] grow.
1 Corinthians 2:14-3:7 BBE (14) For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit. (15) But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one. (16) For who has knowledge of the mind of the Lord (יהוה), so as to be his teacher? But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:1-7 BBE (1) And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ. (2) I gave you milk and not meat, because you were, then, unable to take it, and even now you are not able; (3) Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men? (4) For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men? (5) What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them. (6) I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God (יהוה) gave the increase. (7) So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.
1 Corinthians 2:14-3:7 ESV (14) The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. (15) The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. (16) "For who has understood the mind of the Lord (יהוה) so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:1-7 ESV (1) But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. (2) I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, (3) for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? (4) For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not being merely human? (5) What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. (6) I planted, Apollos watered, but God (יהוה) gave the growth. (7) So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
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ALT - Analytical Literal Translation
ASV - American Standard Version (by the American revision committee in 1897).
BBE - 1965 Bible in Basic English
Bishops - 1568 Bishop's Bible
Calvin - 1856 by Calvin Translation Society
CEV - Contemporary English Version
Coverdale - 1535 Miles Coverdale Bible
Darby - 1889 Darby Bible
DRB - 1899 Douay-Rheims Bible
ESV - English Standard Version
GNB - Good News Bible
GW - God's Word Bible
ISV - International Standard Version
KJV - 1769 King James Version
KJV-1611 - Old King James Version from 1611
LitNT - Literal New Testament
LITV - Literal Translation of the Holy Bible
MKJV - 1962 Modern King James Version
Murdock - 1851 James Murdock New Testament
MWT - Modern World Translation
NWT - New World Translation
RV - Revised Version
Webster - 1833 Webster Bible
WTNT - 1525-26 William Tyndale New Testament
Wycliffe - 1394 Wycliffe Bible
YLT - 1862/1898 Young's Literal Translation
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