Galatians 6:3
1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4 Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
5 For each one should carry his own load.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- KJV
- For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
- WEB
- For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- ASV
- For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
- DARBY
- For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself;
- BLB
- For if anyone thinks [himself] to be something being nothing, he deceives himself.
- ÅB
- For dersom noen tykkes seg å være noe og er dog intet, da dårer han seg selv.
- OTB
- Hvis noen tror de er noe når de ingenting er, bedrar de seg selv.
- B1930
- For dersom nogen tykkes sig å være noget og er dog intet, da dårer han sig selv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Read in context1 Corinthians 8:2
The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.
Read in contextRomans 12:3
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
Read in context2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
Read in contextJames 1:22
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.
Read in context1 John 1:8
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Read in context1 Corinthians 13:2
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
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