Wednesday, July 28

9'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.'

10But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

11For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

13These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

16For 'who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?' But we have the mind of Christ.

1And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.

2I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able;

3for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

4For when one says, 'I am of Paul,' and another, 'I am of Apollos,' are you not carnal?

5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?

6I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

8Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

31Another parable He put forth to them, saying: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,

32which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.'

33Another parable He spoke to them: 'The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.'

34All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them,

35that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: 'I will open My mouth in parables; I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.'

36Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, 'Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.'