1 Corinthians 2:16
Good News Translation
As the scripture says, "Who knows the mind of the Lord? Who is able to give him advice?" We, however, have the mind of Christ.

New Revised Standard Version
“For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Contemporary English Version
The Scriptures ask, "Has anyone ever known the thoughts of the Lord or given him advice?" But we understand what Christ is thinking.

New American Bible
For “who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

who.

Job 15:8 Hast thou heard God's counsel, and shall his wisdom be inferior to thee?

Job 22:2 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?

Job 40:2 Shall he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced? surely he that reproveth God, ought to answer him.

Isaiah 40:13,14 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him? . . .

Jeremiah 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?

Romans 11:34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

may.

John 15:15 I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

John 16:13-16 But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will teach you all truth. For he shall not speak of himself: but what things soever he shall hear, he shall speak. And the things that are to come, he shall shew you. . . .

John 17:6-8 I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world. Thine they were: and to me thou gavest them. And they have kept thy word. . . .

Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth the green herb, and such as yieldeth seed according to its kind, and the tree that beareth fruit, having seed each one according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Ephesians 3:3,4 How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words: . . .

Context
Spiritual Wisdom
15But the spiritual man judgeth all things: and he himself is judged of no man. 16For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Cross References
Isaiah 40:13
Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him?

Jeremiah 23:18
For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, and hath seen and heard his word? Who hath considered his word and heard it?

John 15:15
I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends. because all things, whatsoever I have heard of my Father, I have made known to you.

Romans 11:34
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?

1 Corinthians 12:8
To one indeed, by the Spirit, is given the word of wisdom: and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:

1 Corinthians 2:15
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