1 Corinthians 8:2
If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
In Context
3But if any man loves God, this man is known by him.
Cross References
Proverbs 26:12See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.
Romans 11:25For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.
1 Corinthians 13:8Love never fails. But whether prophecies, they will be abolished, whether tongues, they will cease, whether knowledge, it will be abolished.
Galatians 6:3For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Timothy 6:3If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety,
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 8:2-4
On Things Offered to Idols. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him. The apostle comes here to the case of things that had been offered to idols, concerning which some of them sought satisfaction: a case that frequently occurred in that age of Christianity, when the church… Read the whole commentary →