Bible verses about "philosophy" | Tyndale

⁶ That we speake of is wysdome amonge them that are perfecte: not the wysdome of this worlde nether of the rulars of this worlde (which go to nought) ⁷ but we speake ye wysdome of God which is in secrete and lieth hyd which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glory: ⁸ which wysdome none of ye rulars of the worlde knewe. For had they knowe it they wolde not have crucified the Lorde of glory. ⁹ But as it is written: The eye hath not sene and the eare hath not hearde nether have entred into the herte of man ye thinges which God hath prepared for them that love him. ¹⁰ But God hath opened them vnto vs by his sprete. For ye sprete searcheth all thinges ye the bottome of Goddes secretes.

²¹ Hath not God made the wysdome of this worlde folisshnes? For when the worlde thorow wysdome knew not God in ye wysdome of God: it pleased God thorow folisshnes of preachinge to save them yt beleve.

¹⁸ Certayne philosophers of ye Epicures and of ye stoyckes disputed with him. And some ther were which sayde: what will this babler saye. Other sayd: he semeth to be a tydynges bringer of newe devyls because he preached vnto them Iesus and the resurreccion.

¹⁶ Let no ma therfore trouble youre conscieces aboute meate and drynke or for a pece of an holydaye as the holydaye of the newe mone or of the sabboth dayes ¹⁷ which are nothinge but shaddowes of thynges to come: but the body is in Christ. ¹⁸ Let no man make you shote at a wroge (marke) which after his awne ymaginacion walketh in the humblenes and holynes of angels thinges which he never sawe: causlesse puft vp with his flesshly mynde ¹⁹ and holdeth not the heed wherof all the body by ioyntes and couples receaveth norisshment and is knet to gedder and encreaseth with the in creasynge that commeth of god.

¹ And I brethren when I came to you came not in gloriousnes of wordes or of wysdome shewynge vnto you the testimony of God. ² Nether shewed I my selfe that I knewe eny thinge amonge you save Iesus Christ eve the same that was crucified. ³ And I was amoge you in weaknes and in feare and in moche treblinge. ⁴ And my wordes and my preachinge were not with entysynge wordes of manes wysdome: but in shewinge of ye sprete and of power ⁵ that youre fayth shuld not stonde in ye wysdome of me but in yt power of God.

²⁰ O Timothe save that which is geve ye to kepe and avoyde vngostly vanities of voyces and opposicios of sciece falsly so called

¹³ which thinges also we speake not in the conynge wordes of manes wysdome but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost makynge spretuall coparesons of spretuall thinges.

⁹ Folisshe questions and genealogies and braulinges and stryfe aboute the lawe avoyde for they are vnproffitable and superfluous. ¹⁰ A ma that is geue to heresie after the fyrst and the seconde admonicion avoyde

⁸ Beware lest eny ma come and spoyle you thorow philosophy and disceatfull vanitie thorow the tradicions of me and ordinaunces after the worlde and not after christ.