1 Corinthians 3:18

No one should be self-deceived; the truly wise must become 'fools' by the world's standard to gain real wisdom. Embracing the gospel requires renouncing worldly self-confidence.

Cross-references · 27

• Prov 3:5Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
• 1 Cor 1:18–21For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
• Isa 5:21Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
• Gal 6:3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• 1 Cor 8:1–2Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• Luke 18:17Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
• Jas 1:22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• Matt 18:4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Mark 10:15Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God’s Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Jer 8:8“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
• Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
• 1 Cor 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
• 1 Cor 4:10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
• Prov 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Jas 1:26If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
• Prov 3:7Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.
• 1 Cor 15:33Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
• 1 Jn 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• Gal 6:7Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
• Rom 11:25For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
• Prov 5:7Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.
• Luke 21:8He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.
• Jer 37:9“Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us;” for they shall not depart.

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