Galatians 6:3

New English Translation

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Cross References

Proverbs 25:14

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.

Proverbs 26:12

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

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers – or even like this tax collector.

Acts 5:36

For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and nothing came of it.

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Romans 12:3

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

1 Corinthians 8:2

If someone thinks he knows something, he does not yet know to the degree that he needs to know.

2 Corinthians 12:11

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

Galatians 2:6

But from those who were influential (whatever they were makes no difference to me; God shows no favoritism between people) – those influential leaders added nothing to my message.

Galatians 2:9

and when James, Cephas, and John, who had a reputation as pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we would go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

James 1:22

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

James 1:26

If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile.

1 John 1:8

If we say we do not bear the guilt of sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.