Thinks

I will destroy her vines and fig trees, which she thinks are the wages paid by her lovers. So I will make them into a thicket, and the beasts of the field will devour them.

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise.

However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.

The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.

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

…though I myself could have such confidence. If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh, I have more: