Galatians 6:3

Modern English Version

For if someone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Cross References

Proverbs 25:14

Like clouds and wind without the rain, so is he who boasts himself of a false gift.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed these things about himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men: extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Acts 5:36

For in previous days Theudas rose up, boasting to be somebody, to whom a number of about four hundred men joined themselves. He was killed, and all who obeyed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Do not pretend to be wiser than you are.

Romans 12:3

For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sound judgment, according to the measure of faith God has distributed to every man.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may be wise.

1 Corinthians 8:2

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

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the leading apostles, though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:5

not that we are sufficient in ourselves to take credit for anything of ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

Galatians 2:6

But of these who seemed to be something —whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality to anyone —for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me.

Galatians 2:9

When James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, understood the grace that was given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and seducers will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

James 1:22

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

James 1:26

If anyone among you seems to be religious and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

1 John 1:8

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