Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy this man, for the temple of God is holy, which ye are. 18 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. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, He who catches the wise in their craftiness,
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 5:21
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Galatians 6:3
For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Jeremiah 8:8
How can ye say, We are wise, and the law of LORD is with us? But, behold, the FALSE pen of the scribes has wrought falsely.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:7
Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 5:7
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 26:12
See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Jeremiah 37:9
Thus says LORD: Do not deceive yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us. For they shall not depart.
Matthew 18:4
He therefore who will make himself lowly as this child, this man is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.
Mark 10:15
Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, he will, no, not enter it.
Luke 18:17
Truly I say to you, whoever will not receive the kingdom of God as a child, will, no, not enter into it.
Luke 21:8
And he said, Watch that ye may not be led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, I am, and, The time has come near. Go ye not therefore after them.
Romans 11:25
For I do not want you, brothers, to be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise according to yourselves, that a callousness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles come in.
Romans 12:16
thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,
1 Corinthians 1:18-21
For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are foolish for the sake of Christ, but ye are wise in Christ. We are weak, but ye are strong. Ye are esteemed, but we are disreputable.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,
1 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not led astray. Evil associations corrupt good habits.
Galatians 6:7
Be not misled, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows this he will also reap.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you by empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.
Titus 3:3
For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.
James 1:22
But become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 1:26
If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we lead ourselves astray, and the truth is not in us.