Galatians 6:3 (WEB)
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Fathers and councils · 9
Augustine of Hippo
“Am I ignorant of this also? or does it remain that I deceive myself, and do not the “truth” before Thee in my heart and tongue?” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“For it is a blighting air which doth work this secretly among fruits: just like in morals, secret pride, when a man thinketh himself to be something, though he is nothing.” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“For every man shall bear his own burden.”” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 2–5.
Read the whole comment“Hear the Apostle, “For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing, he seduceth himself.”” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3, Vulg.
Read the whole comment“He knows you even when no one knows; for “he who thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing deceiveth himself.”” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“Aye, brethren, and they do not blush, that, by these bitter and malicious dissensions of theirs, they have made of themselves so many parties, while they assume to be what they are not, while they are lifted up, thinking themselves to be something when they are nothing.” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3.
Read the whole comment“For, of course, the man is not actually nothing, of whom the apostle says, “He who thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing.”” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“By these means they deceived many, so that even men who seemed to be somewhat, were led away by them.” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3
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Gregory of Nyssa
“Let such an one, therefore, who remains in the same moral condition as before, and then babbles to himself of the beneficial change he has received from baptism, listen to what Paul says: “If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”” — editor's note: Gal. vi. 3.
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Cross-references · 18
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 102.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in Confessions X.37.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.
Cited together in The Great Catechism Chapter 42.