2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; …
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)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 of Christ was among the heathen, and the Israel of God must live among the Canaanites. For the better understanding of it, it must be observed that it was a custom among the heathens to make feas…
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