Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Holman Bible
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing,
International Standard Version
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself.
American Standard Version
For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Amplified
For if anyone thinks he is something [special] when [in fact] he is nothing [special except in his own eyes], he deceives himself.
An Understandable Version
For any person who thinks he is someone [important], when he is really nothing, is self-deceived.
Anderson New Testament
For if any one think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself:
Bible in Basic English
For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.
Common New Testament
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for if a man thinks himself to be considerable, when he is not, he deceives himself.
Darby Translation
For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself;
Godbey New Testament
For if any one seems to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.
Goodspeed New Testament
For if anyone thinks he is somebody when he is really nobody, he is deceiving himself.
John Wesley New Testament
For if any man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Julia Smith Translation
For if any think to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.
King James 2000
For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.
Modern King James verseion
For if anyone thinks himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If any man seem to himself that he is somewhat, when indeed he is nothing, the same deceiveth himself in his imagination.
Moffatt New Testament
If anyone imagines he is somebody, he is deceiving himself, for he is nobody;
Montgomery New Testament
If a man fancies himself to be somebody when he is really nobody he is deceiving himself.
NET Bible
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
New Heart English Bible
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Noyes New Testament
For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Sawyer New Testament
For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
The Emphasized Bible
For, if any one thinketh he is something, when he is, nothing, he deceiveth himself;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For if any man conceits that he is something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Twentieth Century New Testament
If a man imagines himself to be somebody, when he is really nobody, he deceives himself.
Webster
For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Weymouth New Testament
For if there is any one who thinks himself to be somebody when he is nobody, he is deluding himself.
Williams New Testament
For if anybody thinks he is somebody when really he is nobody, he deceives himself.
World English Bible
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Worrell New Testament
For, if any one thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Worsley New Testament
For if any one thinketh that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Youngs Literal Translation
for if any one doth think himself to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Galatians 6:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Carry One Another's Burdens
2 Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law of the Christ. 3 For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:18
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.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish, boasting. Ye compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I came short in nothing of those, superlative apostles, even though I am nothing.
Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.
1 Corinthians 8:2
If any man presumes to know anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.
Galatians 2:6
But from those who were reputed to be something (what kind they were formerly, it makes no difference to me, God does not accept a personage of man), for those who were of repute added nothing to me,
Proverbs 25:14
Clouds and wind without rain, [is] he who boasts himself of his gifts falsely.
Proverbs 26:12
See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.
Luke 18:11
Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.
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 13:2
And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
2 Corinthians 3:5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will go forward to worse, leading astray and being led astray.
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.