Galatians 6:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Galatians 6:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
1 Corinthians 3:18
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.
1 Corinthians 8:2
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-10)

The apostle having, in the foregoing chapter, exhorted Christians by love to serve one another (Gal. 5:13), and also cautioned us (Gal. 5:16) against a temper which, if indulged, would hinder us from showing the mutual love and serviceableness which he had recommended, in the beginning of this chapter he proceeds to give some further directions, which, if duly observed, would both promote the one…

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

(vv. 3)

3. Self-conceit, the chief hindrance to forbearance and sympathy towards our fellow men, must be laid aside. something--possessed of some spiritual pre-eminence, so as to be exempt from the frailty of other men. when he is nothing--The Greek is subjective: “Being, if he would come to himself, and look on the real fact, nothing” [Alford] (Ga 6:2, 6; Ro 12:3; 1Co 8:2). deceiveth himself--literally,…