Bible verses about "philosophy" | Living_Oracles

⁶ However, we speak wisdom among the perfect: but not the wisdom of this world; neither of the rulers of this world, who are to be brought to nothing. ⁷ But we speak the mysterious wisdom of God, which has been till now concealed; which God declared before the time of the ages, should be spoken to our glory. ⁸ Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ For, as it is written, "Those things eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and into the heart of man have not entered, which God has prepared for them who love him." ¹⁰ But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

²¹ For, when, in the wisdom of God, the world, through wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, through the foolishness of this proclamation, to save them who believe.

¹⁸ Then some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers opposed him. Others said, What would this babbler say? And others, he seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities; because he declared to them the good news concerning Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁶ Let no one, therefore, judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a festival, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths; ¹⁷ which are a shadow of the things which were to come, but the substance is of Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one beguile you of your reward, -delighting in humility, and the worship of messengers, intruding into things which he has not seen, being without cause, puffed up by his own carnal mind: ¹⁹ and not holding firmly the head, by whom the whole body, through the joints and ligaments, being served and compacted, increases with the increase of God.

¹ Now, when I cam to you, brethren, I came not with excellency of speech, and of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. ² For I determined to make known nothing among you but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³ And I, in weakness and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you. ⁴ My discourse, also, and my proclamation, were not with persuasive words of human wisdom; but with the demonstration of the Spirit, and of power. ⁵ That your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

²⁰ O Timothy, guard the things committed to you in trust, avoiding profane babblings, and oppositions of knowledge, falsely so named:

¹³ Which things, also, we speak, not in words, taught by human wisdom; but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things in spiritual words.

⁹ But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about the law, resist; for they are unprofitable and vain. ¹⁰ A factionist, after a first and second admonition, reject;

⁸ Beware lest any one make a prey of you through an empty and deceitful philosophy, -according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.