² and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;

¹² for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

⁸ The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

⁹ for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

³ for if any one doth think `himself' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

³ if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

¹² Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

² For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

³ Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

⁴ Who went up to heaven, and cometh down? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound waters in a garment? Who established all ends of the earth? What `is' His name? and what His son's name? Surely thou knowest!

²⁵ For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

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

⁶ from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

⁷ willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,