Galatians 6:3

Anyone who thinks he is something when he is nothing deceives himself. Self-importance blinds a person to his own need and the call to serve others.

Cross-references · 15

• Prov 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• 1 Cor 8:2But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
• 1 Cor 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
• Rom 12:3For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
• 2 Cor 3:5not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;
• 1 Cor 13:2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.
• Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
• 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.
• Jas 1:22But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
• 1 Jn 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Prov 25:14As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
• 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.
• 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• 2 Cor 12:11I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
• Gal 2:6But from those who were reputed to be important (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man) — they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

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