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But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn`t yet know as he ought to know.
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Knowledge Must Serve Love
Commentators unanimously agree that Paul is not condemning knowledge itself, but knowledge that lacks a moral purpose. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill explain that if one's knowledge leads to pride or contempt for others, they have failed to learn its primary lesson: to build up fellow believers in love.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
Puffeth up (φυσιο). From φυσιοω (present indicative active). See on 4:6. Pride may be the result, not edification (οικοδομε) which…
19th Century
Anglican
If any man thinks that he knows anything . . . .—There must be a moral as well as a merely intellectual element in knowl…
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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 …
16th Century
Protestant
And if any man thinketh—that man thinketh that he knoweth something, who is delighted with the opinion he holds of his own knowle…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if any man think that he knows anything Whoever has an opinion of himself, or is conceited with his own knowledg…
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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 …
