Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Holman Bible
No one should deceive
International Standard Version
Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in the ways of this world, he must become a fool to become really wise.
A Conservative Version
Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.
American Standard Version
Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
Amplified
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool [discarding his worldly pretensions and acknowledging his lack of wisdom], so that he may become [truly] wise.
An Understandable Version
No one should fool himself. If any person among you thinks he is smart, by human standards, he should become a "fool," so that he can become [really] wise.
Anderson New Testament
Let no one deceive himself: if any one among you is considered as wise in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Bible in Basic English
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
Common New Testament
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become a fool so that he may become wise.
Daniel Mace New Testament
let no man deceive himself: if any among you pretends to worldly wisdom, let him commence fool, in order to be truly wise.
Darby Translation
Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.
Goodspeed New Testament
Let no one of you deceive himself. If any one of you imagines that he is wiser than the rest of you, in what this world calls wisdom, he had better become a fool, so as to become really wise.
John Wesley New Testament
Let none deceive himself: if any one among you thinketh himself to be wise, let him become a fool in this world, that he may become wise.
Julia Smith Translation
Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.
King James 2000
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.
Modern King James verseion
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool so that he may be wise.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let no man deceive himself. If any man seem wise among you, let him be a fool in this world, that he may be wise.
Moffatt New Testament
Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.
Montgomery New Testament
Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
NET Bible
Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.
New Heart English Bible
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.
Noyes New Testament
Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
Sawyer New Testament
Let no one deceive himself; if any one seems to be wise among you in this life, let him be a fool, that he may be wise.
The Emphasized Bible
Let no one be deceiving himself: - if anyone imagineth himself to be wise among you, in this age, let him become foolish, that he may become wise;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinketh himself a wise man in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a 'fool,' that he may become wise.
Webster
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Weymouth New Testament
Let no one deceive himself. If any man imagines that he is wise, compared with the rest of you, with the wisdom of the present age, let him become "foolish" so that he may be wise.
Williams New Testament
Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
Worsley New Testament
Let no one deceive himself: if any among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be truly wise.
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
Themes
Craftiness » Who the lord takes in their own craftiness
Foolishness » What is foolishness with God
Simplicity » Should be exhibited » Concerning our own wisdom
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Corinthians 3:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Divisiveness And Immaturity
17 If any one destroys the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are. 18 Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
Names
Cross References
Galatians 6:3
For if any one seems to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.
Matthew 18:4
Therefore whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens;
Mark 10:15
Truly, I say unto you, Whosoever may not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, can not enter into it.
Luke 18:17
Truly I say unto you, whosoever may not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, can not enter into it.
Luke 21:8
And He said, See that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, saying, I am He; and The time is at hand: go ye not after them.
Romans 11:25
I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to this mystery, in order that you may not he wise with yourselves, that blindness in part has happened unto Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles may come in;
Romans 12:16
Have the same mind toward one another, not thinking high things, but condescending to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.
1 Corinthians 1:18-21
For the word of the cross is foolishness indeed to those who are lost; but to those who are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are glorious, but we are dishonorable.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,
1 Corinthians 8:1-2
But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine love builds up.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man may sow, that shall he also reap:
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
2 Timothy 3:13
But wicked men and seducers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Titus 3:3
For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;
James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:26
But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain.
1 John 1:8
But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.