1 Corinthians 3:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

1 Corinthians 3:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 94:11
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Romans 1:21
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Job 11:11-12
For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it? …
Psalms 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-20)

Here he prescribes humility, and a modest opinion of themselves, for the remedy of the irregularities in the church of Corinth, the divisions and contests among them: “ Let no man deceive himself, 1 Cor. 3:18. Do not be led away from the truth and simplicity of the gospel by pretenders to science and eloquence, by a show of deep learning, or a flourish of words, by rabbis, orators, or philosophers…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Quotation from Psa 94:11. There it is of men; here it is “of the wise.” Paul by inspiration states the class of men whose “thoughts” (or rather, “reasonings,” as suits the Greek and the sense of the context) the Spirit designated in the Psalm, “vanity,” namely, the “proud” (Psa 94:2) and worldly-wise, whom God in Psa 94:8 calls “fools,” though they “boast themselves” of their wisdom in pushing…