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.

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]

⁵ It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God.

² If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

¹¹ The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer^[a]: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector!

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

²² But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.