What Does 1 Corinthians 2:16 Mean in the King James?
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The mind no one can give to God as instruction is the mind Christ shares with us.
THE MEANING
No human being stands above the Lord to teach him what is true. Yet the verse says, “we have the mind of Christ”: the wisdom beyond your mastery is made shareable in Christ. Your understanding is not sealed off from this way of seeing.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that God’s wisdom is wholly inaccessible: the verse that says no one can instruct the Lord also says we have the mind of Christ.
THE ROOT
νοῦς
nous
GROWS FROM
νο-
no-
Perceive, apprehend; mind or understanding as the capacity to perceive.
English “mind” can sound like a private store of thoughts, but νοῦς (nous) means mind or understanding as a faculty of perception. The verse moves from the impossibility of tutoring the Lord to the startling claim that Christ’s way of perceiving is shared.
ALSO GROWS
noeō: Perceive, understand
νοέω
This verb shows the mind as an act of apprehending, not merely possessing information.
dianoia: Understanding, thought
διάνοια
This related form carries the same perceptual seed into the broader sense of understanding.
THE PATTERN
God’s understanding cannot be supplied by human counsel, yet divine knowing is made shareable through the Breath and the Son.
Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.THE THREAD
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?Romans repeats the same question with the same word translated “mind,” so the connection is verbal, not merely thematic. Beside its answer here, the question turns: no one can counsel the Lord, yet Christ’s mind is shared with “we.”
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