Puffeth up (φυσιο). From φυσιοω (present indicative active). See on 4:6. Pride may be the result, not edification (οικοδομε) which…

And if any man think, etc. The connection and the scope of this passage require us to understand this as designed to condemn that vain con…

If any man thinks that he knows anything . . . .—There must be a moral as well as a merely intellectual element in knowl…

Paul warns against dependence on simply knowing something, since a person never knows all that ought to be known about a subject. Such an attitude …

And if any man thinketh—that man thinketh that he knoweth something, who is delighted with the opinion he holds of his own knowle…

And if any man think that he knows anything
Whoever has an opinion of himself, or is conceited with his own knowledg…

There is no proof of ignorance more common than conceit of knowledge. Much may be known when nothing is known to good purpose. And those who think …