As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
Romans 1:22 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, None sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
For I don't desire, brothers, to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Yisra'el, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,