Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
1 Corinthians 8:2 - New Revised Standard Version Anyone who claims to know something does not yet have the necessary knowledge; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If anyone imagines that he has come to know and understand much [of divine things, without love], he does not yet perceive and recognize and understand as strongly and clearly, nor has he become as intimately acquainted with anything as he ought or as is necessary. American Standard Version (1901) If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know; Common English Bible If anyone thinks they know something, they don’t yet know as much as they should know. Catholic Public Domain Version But if anyone considers himself to know anything, he does not yet know in the way that he ought to know. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know. |
Do you see persons wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.
So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.
Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.
For if those who are nothing think they are something, they deceive themselves.