Galatians 6:3

For if any one think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

In Context

2Bear with the weaknesses of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

4but let each one prove his own work, and then he will have cause to boast with respect to himself only, and not with respect to another:

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Cross References

Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Romans 12:16cultivate the same disposition, one toward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

1 Corinthians 8:2If any one thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet, as he ought to know it:

2 Corinthians 3:5not that we are able, of ourselves, to devise anything, as from ourselves; but our ability is from God,

Galatians 2:6But from those who were supposed to be something; (what they were is a matter of no importance to me: God does not accept the person of man;) they, indeed, who were supposed to be something, communicated no additional truth to me;

Matthew Henry on Galatians 6:2-11

Tenderness in Reproving; Self-Examination; Spiritual Mindedness and Beneficence. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in… Read the whole commentary →

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