Verse 3

For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
  • 2 Cor 12:11 : 11 I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.
  • 1 Cor 8:2 : 2 If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
  • Rom 12:3 : 3 For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.
  • Gal 2:6 : 6 But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person)--they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me:
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
  • Jas 1:22 : 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.
  • Jas 1:26 : 26 If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain.
  • 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
  • Prov 25:14 : 14 [ As] clouds and wind without rain, [So is] he that boasteth himself of his gifts falsely.
  • Rom 12:16 : 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.
  • Luke 18:11 : 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
  • 1 Cor 13:2 : 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
  • 2 Cor 3:5 : 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;