1 Corinthians 3:18
Good News Translation
You should not fool yourself. If any of you think that you are wise by this world's standards, you should become a fool, in order to be really wise.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.

Contemporary English Version
Don't fool yourselves! If any of you think you are wise in the things of this world, you will have to become foolish before you can be truly wise.

New American Bible
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you considers himself wise in this age, let him become a fool so as to become wise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

deceive.

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:

1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not seduced: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Proverbs 5:7 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

Isaiah 44:20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Jeremiah 37:9 But if you should even beat all the army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there should be left of them some wounded men: they shall rise up, every man from his heart, and burn this city with fire.

Luke 21:8 Who said: Take heed you be not seduced: for many will come in my name, saying: I am he and the time is at hand. Go ye not therefore after them.

Galatians 6:3,7 For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. . . .

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief.

2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error,

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

James 1:22,26 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. . . .

1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

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1 Corinthians 1:18-21 For the word of the cross, to them indeed that perish, is foolishness: but to them that are saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:10 We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.

1 Corinthians 8:1,2 Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth. . . .

Proverbs 3:5,7 In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps. . . .

Proverbs 26:12 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

Isaiah 5:21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Jeremiah 8:8 How do you say: We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Indeed the lying pens of the scribes hath wrought falsehood.

Romans 11:25 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

Romans 12:16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

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Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:15 Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter into it.

Luke 18:17 Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child shall not enter into it.

Context
Worldly Wisdom
17But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are. 18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written: I will catch the wise in their own craftiness.…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:21
Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Matthew 13:22
And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choketh up the word, and he becometh fruitless.

1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

1 Corinthians 3:17
But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are.

1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.

1 Corinthians 8:2
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know.

Galatians 6:3
For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

1 Corinthians 3:17
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