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

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,

¹¹ I have become a fool -- boasting; ye -- ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles -- even if I am nothing.

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

¹³ and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

⁶ And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

³ For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

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

⁸ if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

²⁶ If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain `is' the religion;

²² and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

⁵ not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency `is' of God,

² and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

¹⁶ of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

¹⁴ Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, `Is' a man boasting himself in a false gift.