² But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

¹⁸ Let 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.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

³ For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

³ If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

⁴ he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

¹² Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

² "Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.

³ I have not learned wisdom, Neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

⁴ Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?

²⁵ For I don't desire, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} to have you ignorant 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,

⁵ but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

⁶ from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.