³ If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important.

¹⁸ Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise.

² Anyone who claims to know all the answers doesn’t really know very much.

¹³ But evil people and impostors will flourish. They will deceive others and will themselves be deceived.

³ Because of the privilege and authority^[a] God has given me, I give each of you this warning: Don’t think you are better than you really are. Be honest in your evaluation of yourselves, measuring yourselves by the faith God has given us.^[b]

²⁶ If you claim to be religious but don’t control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless.

Paul’s Concern for the Corinthians

¹¹ You have made me act like a fool. You ought to be writing commendations for me, for I am not at all inferior to these “super apostles,” even though I am nothing at all.

⁸ If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth.

⁶ And the leaders of the church had nothing to add to what I was preaching. (By the way, their reputation as great leaders made no difference to me, for God has no favorites.)