Bible verses about "philosophy" | Anderson

⁶ Yet we speak wisdom among the perfect; but not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are brought to nought: ⁷ but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even that which had been hidden, which God predestined before the ages, for our glory, ⁸ which none of the rulers of this age knew; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. ⁹ But, as it is written: Eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered the things which God has prepared for them that love him. ¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

²¹ For, since in the wisdom of God, the world, by its wisdom, knew not God, it has pleased God, through the foolishness of what is preached, to save those who believe.

¹⁸ And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers disputed with him; and some said: What can this babbler possibly wish to say? Others said: He seems to be a proclaimer of strange demons: for he preached to them Jesus and the Resurrection.

¹⁶ Let no one judge you, therefore, in meat or in drink, or in respect to a feast, or the new moon, or sabbaths, ¹⁷ which things are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is in Christ, ¹⁸ Let no one gain his purpose in depriving you of the palm by an affected humility and worship of angels, prying into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, ¹⁹ and not holding the head, from which the whole body gathering vigor, and firmly united by joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.

¹ And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. ² For I determined not to know any thing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling: ⁴ and my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, ⁵ that your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

²⁰ Timothy, keep that which is committed to your charge, avoiding those profane and empty babblings, and disputations about knowledge falsely so called;

¹³ which things also we speak, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

⁹ But foolish questions and genealogies and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain. ¹⁰ A man that is a sectary, reject, after the first and second admonition,

⁸ See that no one make you the victims of imposture by means of philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not ac cording to Christ: