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1 Corinthians 8:2

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Majority Standard Bible

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

1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

3But the one who loves God is known by God.

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Cross References

Proverbs 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Romans 11:25I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

1 Corinthians 13:8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

Galatians 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

1 Timothy 6:3If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching,

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 →

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