Galatians 6:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For if any person thinks himself to be somebody [too important to condescend to shoulder another's load] when he is nobody [of superiority except in his own estimation], he deceives and deludes and cheats himself.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Common English Bible

³ If anyone thinks they are important when they aren’t, they’re fooling themselves.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For if anyone considers himself to be something, though he may be nothing, he deceives himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Galatians 6:3 Cross References

Proverbs 25:14

Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of a gift never given.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see people wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee, standing by himself, was praying thus, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Acts 5:36

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him, but he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and disappeared.

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be arrogant, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

1 Corinthians 8:2

Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge,

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the ones commending me, for I am not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are qualified of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our qualification is from God,

Galatians 2:6

And from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they actually were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those leaders contributed nothing to me.

Galatians 2:9

and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the gentiles and they to the circumcised.

2 Timothy 3:13

But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.

James 1:22

But be doers of the word and not merely hearers who deceive themselves.

James 1:26

If any think they are religious and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion is worthless.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.