1 Corinthians 8:2
If any one seems to know anything, yet he knows not as it behooves him to know;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
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 one loves God he is known of him.
Cross References
Romans 11:25I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to this mystery, in order that you may not he wise with yourselves, that blindness in part has happened unto Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles may come in;
1 Corinthians 13:8Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Galatians 6:3For if any one seems to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Timothy 6:3If any one teaches another doctrine, and does not give heed to the sound words which belonged to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
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 →