Galatians 6:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.

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

English Standard Version
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Berean Study Bible
If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

New American Standard Bible
For if anyone thinks that he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

NASB 1995
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

NASB 1977
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Amplified Bible
For if anyone thinks he is something [special] when [in fact] he is nothing [special except in his own eyes], he deceives himself.

Christian Standard Bible
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Contemporary English Version
If you think you are better than others, when you really aren't, you are wrong.

Good News Translation
If you think you are something when you really are nothing, you are only deceiving yourself.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So if any one of you thinks you're important when you're really not, you're only fooling yourself.

International Standard Version
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is really nothing, he is only fooling himself.

NET Bible
For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

New King James Version
For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

King James 2000 Bible
For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

New Heart English Bible
For if anyone thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

World English Bible
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

American King James Version
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

American Standard Version
For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

A Faithful Version
For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he is deceiving himself.

Darby Bible Translation
For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself;

English Revised Version
For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Webster's Bible Translation
For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For if any man seeme to himselfe, that he is somewhat, when he is nothing, hee deceiueth himselfe in his imagination.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For if any man seeme to him selfe that he is somewhat, when he is nothyng, the same deceaueth hymselfe in his owne fansie.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But yf eny man thinke himselfe to be somwhat (whan in dede he is nothinge) the same disceaueth himselfe.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
If eny ma seme to him silfe that he is somwhat whe in dede he is nothynge the same deceaveth hym silfe in his ymaginacion.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for if anyone thinks [himself] to be something—being nothing—he deceives himself;

Berean Literal Bible
For if anyone thinks himself to be something being nothing, he deceives himself.

Young's Literal Translation
for if any one doth think himself to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

Smith's Literal Translation
For if any think to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

Literal Emphasis Translation
For if anyone supposes to be something being nothing, he deceives by distortion the inner outlook of himself.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For if anyone considers himself to be something, though he may be nothing, he deceives himself.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For if a man thinks he is something when he is not, he deceives himself.

Lamsa Bible
For if man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For if any one think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself:

Godbey New Testament
For if any one seems to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

Haweis New Testament
For if any man conceits that he is something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Mace New Testament
for if a man thinks himself to be considerable, when he is not, he deceives himself.

Weymouth New Testament
For if there is any one who thinks himself to be somebody when he is nobody, he is deluding himself.

Worrell New Testament
For, if any one thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Worsley New Testament
For if any one thinketh that he is something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
















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