1st Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 2 Holy Bible
If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;
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If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
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If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know [it].
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And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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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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and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - If any man think that he knoweth anything. Humility is the test of true knowledge, and love the inevitable factor in all Christian knowledge. The conceit of knowledge is usually the usurped self assertion of an imaginary infallibility. We only know "in part," and our knowledge, having at the best a purely relative value, is destined to vanish away (1 Corinthians 13:8). As he ought to know. True knowledge has in it an element of moral obligation, and saintliness is knowledge and supersedes the necessity for formal knowledge. Love is knowledge which has passed into heavenly wisdom. The student may say to the mystic, "All that you see I know;" but the mystic may retort," All that you know, I see."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) If any man think that he knoweth any thing . . . .--There must be a moral as well as a merely intellectual element in knowledge if it is to be true knowledge. Without love to guide us in its use it is not an operative knowledge, and so does not fulfil the true end of knowledge.It has been suggested (Stanley in loc) that "not yet" has here the force of "not in the infirmities of their mortal state;" but such an interpretation introduces altogether a new element of thought, to which there is no antithetical explanation in what follows.
