Read in context, this phrase seems to be a warning to those that are either helping fellow believers or think they are too important to help. Christians must not consider themselves to be better than their fellow believers. They must not think that they are immune to certain temptations, or that they are too important to help. In both cases, they will be unable to sympathize with their brother and unwilling to treat them with gentleness.1
3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.