1 Corinthians 8:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

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  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know just as I also am known.
  • Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
  • 1 Tim 6:3-4 : 3 If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness; 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
  • 1 Cor 13:8-9 : 8 Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
  • Prov 26:12 : 12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 Surely I am more ignorant than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man. 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
  • 1 Tim 1:5-7 : 5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith: 6 From which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, 7 Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm.

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  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1Now concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

  • 1 Cor 8:3-4
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    3But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

    4Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

  • Gal 6:3
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    3For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

  • 1 Cor 14:37-38
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    37If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

    38But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

  • 1 Cor 2:10-11
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    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 man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-11
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    7However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.

    8But food does not commend us to God; for neither if we eat are we better, nor if we do not eat are we worse.

    9But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

    10For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

    11And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

  • 1 Cor 2:14-16
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    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 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.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-21
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    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.

    20And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

    21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours;

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6And these things, brothers, I have applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so that none of you be puffed up for one against another.

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

  • 1 Cor 4:4
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    4For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by this; but He who judges me is the Lord.

  • 1 John 4:8
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    8He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

  • 1 Cor 13:9
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    9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

  • 1 John 2:3-4
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    3And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

    4He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

  • Job 15:9
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    9What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that is not in us?

  • Job 13:2
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    2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
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    8For if these things are in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9But he who lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Let us, therefore, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you.

  • 1 Cor 13:12
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    12For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know just as I also am known.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

  • Jas 4:17
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    17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

  • 1 Cor 13:2
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    2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

  • Prov 8:9
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    9They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

  • 1 Tim 1:7
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    7Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm.

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If anyone trusts that he is Christ's, let him think this again in himself, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16Therefore from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him thus no longer.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6Even though I am unskilled in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly revealed among you in all things.

  • Job 8:9
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    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)

  • 2 Cor 11:16
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    16I say again, let no one think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast a little.

  • 2 Tim 3:7
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    7Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • 2 Tim 2:7
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    7Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

  • Rom 2:18-19
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    18And know His will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

    19And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

  • Ps 94:11
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    11The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.