Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of a gift never given.
Romans 1:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves]. American Standard Version (1901) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Common English Bible While they were claiming to be wise, they made fools of themselves. Catholic Public Domain Version For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. |
Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of a gift never given.
Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”
You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”
Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols, for their images are false, and there is no breath in them.
“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”
but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
I want you to understand this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not claim to be wiser than you are: a hardening has come upon part of Israel until the full number of the gentiles has come in.