1 Corinthians 8:2
If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.
Open English Bible (US)
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
3On the other hand, if a person loves God, they are known by God.
Cross References
Romans 11:25My friends, so that you don’t think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only until the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.
1 Corinthians 13:8Love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will end; whether it be the gift of ‘tongues,’ it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will vanish.
Galatians 6:3If a person imagines themselves to be somebody, when they are really nobody, they deceive themselves.
1 Timothy 6:3Anyone who teaches otherwise, and refuses their assent to sound instruction – the instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ – and to the teaching of religion,
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 →