Bible verses about "philosophy" | Coverdale

¹⁸ But certayne Philosophers of ye Epicurees and Stoikes disputed with him. And some sayde: What will this babler saye? But some sayde: He semeth to be a tidinges brynger of new goddes (That was, because he had preached vnto the the Gospell of Iesus, & of the resurreccion.)

⁶ That we speake of, is wyssdome amonge the yt are perfecte: not ye wyssdome of this worlde, nether of the rulers of this worlde which go to naughte: ⁷ but we speake of the wyssdome of God, which is in secrete and lyeth hyd: which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glorye: ⁸ which none of ye rulers of this worlde knewe. For yf they had knowne it, they had not crucified the LORDE of glorye, ⁹ but as it is wrytten: The eye hath not sene, and the eare hath not herde, nether hath it entred in to the hert of man that God hath prepared for them that loue him. ¹⁰ But God hath opened it vnto vs by his sprete. For the sprete searcheth out all thinges, yee euen the depenesses of the God heade.

²¹ Hath not God made the wyssdome of this worlde foolishnesse? For in so moch as the worlde by the wyssdome therof knewe not God in his wyssdome, it pleased God thorow foolish preachinge to saue them yt beleue.

¹⁶ Let no man therfore trouble youre consciences aboute meate or drynke, or for a pece of an holy daye, as the holy daye of ye newe Mone, or of the Sabbath dayes, ¹⁷ which are the shadowe of the thinges that were for to come: but the body selfe is in Christ. ¹⁸ Let no man make you shote at a wronge mark, which after his owne chosynge walketh in humblenes and spiritualtye of angels, thinges which he neuer sawe, and is vayne, and puft vp in his owne fleshly mynde: ¹⁹ and holdeth not himselfe to the heade, wherof the whole body by ioyntes and couples receaueth norishment, and is knyt together, and so groweth to the greatnes that commeth of God.

²⁰ O Timothy, kepe that which is committed vnto the, and avoyde vngoostly vayne wordes, and opposicions of science falsly so called,

¹ And I brethre, wha I came vnto you came not wt hye wordes or hye wyssdome, to shewe vnto you the preachinge of Christ. ² For I shewed not forth my selfe amonge you that I knewe eny thinge, saue onely Iesus Christ, euen the sam thate was crucified. ³ And I was amonge you in weaknes, and in feare, and in moch tremblinge: ⁴ and my worde and my preachinge was not with entysinge wordes of mans wyssdome, but in shewinge of the sprete and of power: ⁵ that youre faith shulde not stonde in the wyssdome of men, but in the power of God.

¹³ which we also speake, not with connynge wordes of mas wyssdome, but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost, and iudge spirituall matters spiritually.

⁹ As for folish questions, and genealogies, and braulynges and stryuynges aboute ye lawe, auoyde the, for they are vnprofitable and vayne. ¹⁰ A ma that is geuen vnto heresye, after ye first and seconde monicion, auoyde,

⁸ Bewarre lest eny ma spoyle you thorow philosophy and disceatfull vanite after the tradicions of men, and after the ordinauces of the worlde, and not after Christ.

¹ There are places where syluer is molte, & where golde is tryed: ² where yron is dygged out of the grounde, & stones resolued to metall. ³ The darcknes shal once come to an ende, he can seke out the grounde of all thinges: the stones, the darcke, & the horrible shadowe, ⁴ wt the ryuer of water parteth he a sunder the straunge people, yt knoweth no good neghbourheade: soch as are rude, vnmanerly & boysteous. ⁵ He bryngeth foode out of the earth, & yt which is vnder, consumeth he with fyre. ⁶ There is founde a place, whose stones are clene Saphirs, and where ye clottes of the earth are golde. ⁷ There is a waye also that the byrdes knowe not, that no vulturs eye hath sene: ⁸ wherin ye proude & hye mynded walke not, & where no lyon commeth. ⁹ There putteth he his honde vpon the stony rockes, & ouerthroweth the mountaynes. ¹⁰ Ryuers flowe out of the rockes, & loke what is pleasaunt, his eye seyth it. ¹¹ Out of droppes bryngeth he greate floudes together, & the thinge that is hyd bryngeth he to light. ¹² How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge? ¹³ Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether is she foude in the lode of the lyuynge. ¹⁴ The depe sayeth: she is not in me. The see sayeth: she is not with me. ¹⁵ She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye. ¹⁶ No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her. ¹⁷ No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate. ¹⁸ There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellet, as once to be named vnto her: for parfecte wy?dome goeth farre beyonde the all. ¹⁹ The Topas that cometh out of Inde, maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her: yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be. ²⁰ From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge? ²¹ She is hyd from the eyes of all men, yee & fro the foules of the ayre. ²² Destruccion & death saie: we haue herde tell of her wt oure eares. ²³ But God seyth hir waie, & knoweth hir place. ²⁴ For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder the heaue. ²⁵ When he weyed the wyndes, & measured ye waters: ²⁶ when he set the rayne in ordre, and gaue the mightie floudes a lawe: ²⁷ Then dyd he se her, the declared he her, prepared her and knewe her. ²⁸ And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.