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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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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 8:2
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 8:2
Puffeth up (φυσιο). From φυσιοω (present indicative active). See on 4:6. Pride may be the result, not edification (οικοδομε) which…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 8:2
19th Century
Bishop
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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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 8:2
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 …
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 8:2
16th Century
Theologian
And if any man thinketh—that man thinketh that he knoweth something, who is delighted with the opinion he holds of his own knowle…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 8:2
17th Century
Pastor
And if any man think that he knows anything
Whoever has an opinion of himself, or is conceited with his own knowledg…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 8:1–6
17th Century
Minister
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 …