1 Corinthians 8:2

World English Bible (2000)

But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

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  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully 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 a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, 4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
  • 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
  • 1 Cor 13:8-9 : 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 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 the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding. 3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
  • 1 Tim 1:5-7 : 5 but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith; 6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking; 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

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  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1 Now concerning things sacrificed 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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    3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

    4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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

  • 1 Cor 14:37-38
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    37 If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

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

  • 1 Cor 2:10-11
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    10 But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

    11 For who among men 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 God's Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 8:7-11
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    7 However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

    8 But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we don't eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

    9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

    10 For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

    11 And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

  • 1 Cor 2:14-16
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    14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

    15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

    16 "For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.

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

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

    20 And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

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

  • 1 Cor 4:6
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    6 Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

  • 1 Cor 4:4
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    4 For 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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    8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

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

  • 1 John 2:3-4
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    3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

    4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

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

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

  • 2 Pet 1:8-9
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    8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

  • Phil 3:15
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    15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

  • 1 Cor 13:12
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    12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

  • 1 Cor 10:12
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    12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn't fall.

  • Jas 4:17
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    17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

  • 1 Cor 13:2
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    2 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 don't have love, I am nothing.

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

  • 1 Tim 1:7
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    7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

  • 2 Cor 10:7
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    7 Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again with himself, that, even as he is Christ's, so also we are Christ's.

  • 2 Cor 5:16
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    16 Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

  • 2 Cor 11:6
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    6 But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to 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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    16 I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.

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

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

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

    19 and 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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    11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.