Bible verses about "philosophy" | DouayRheims

¹⁸ And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics disputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

⁶ Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought. ⁷ But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: ⁸ Which none of the princes of this world knew. For if they had known it, they would never have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him. ¹⁰ But to us God hath revealed them by his Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

²¹ For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.

¹⁶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths, ¹⁷ Which are a shadow of things to come: but the body is of Christ. ¹⁸ Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh: ¹⁹ And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into the increase of God.

¹ And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not in loftiness of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of Christ. ² For I judged not myself to know anything 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 was not in the persuasive words of human wisdom. but in shewing of the Spirit and power: ⁵ That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.

²⁰ O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.

¹³ Which things also we speak: not in the learned words of human wisdom, but in the doctrine of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

⁹ But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain. ¹⁰ A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

⁸ Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ.

¹ Silver hath beginnings of its veins, and gold hath a place wherein it is melted. ² Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass. ³ He hath set a time for darkness, and the end of all things he considereth, the stone also that is in the dark and the shadow of death. ⁴ The flood divideth from the people that are on their journey, those whom the food of the needy man hath forgotten, and who cannot be come at. ⁵ The land, out of which bread grew in its place, hath been overturned with fire. ⁶ The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and the clods of it are gold. ⁷ The bird hath not known the path, neither hath the eye of the vulture beheld it. ⁸ The children of the merchants have not trodden it, neither hath the lioness passed by it. ⁹ He hath stretched forth his hand to the flint, he hath overturned mountains from the roots. ¹⁰ In the rocks he hath cut out rivers, and his eye hath seen every precious thing. ¹¹ The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light. ¹² But where is wisdom to be found, and where is the place of understanding? ¹³ Man knoweth not the price thereof, neither is it found in the land of them that live in delights. ¹⁴ The depth saith: It is not in me: and the sea saith: It is not with me. ¹⁵ The finest gold shall not purchase it, neither shall silver be weighed in exchange for it. ¹⁶ It shall not be compared with the dyed colours of India, or with the most precious stone sardonyx, or the sapphire. ¹⁷ Gold or crystal cannot equal it, neither shall any vessels of gold be changed for it. ¹⁸ High and eminent things shall not be mentioned in comparison of it: but wisdom is drawn out of secret places. ¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not be equal to it, neither shall it be compared to the cleanest dyeing. ²⁰ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? ²¹ It is hid from the eyes of all living, and the fowls of the air know it not. ²² Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof. ²³ God understandeth the way of it, and he knoweth the place thereof. ²⁴ For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven. ²⁵ Who made a weight for the winds, and weighed the waters by measure. ²⁶ When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms. ²⁷ Then he saw it, and declared, and prepared, and searched it. ²⁸ And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.