Bible verses about "philosophy" | Riverside

⁶ We do speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this world nor of the defeated rulers of this world. ⁷ But we speak a wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the world began for our glory. ⁸ None of the rulers of this world knew it, for if they had known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. ⁹ But as it is written, "What eye has not seen and what ear has not heard and what has not entered human mind, God has prepared for those who love him." ¹⁰ To us God has revealed this by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

²¹ For when in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not come to know God, God was pleased to save through the foolishness of our proclamation those who believe.

¹⁸ Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him, and some said, "What can this idle talker mean?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods," because he was telling the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

¹⁶ Let no one then judge you in the matter of food or drink or in regard to a festival or new moon or Sabbath. ¹⁷ These were a shadow of coming things, but the body is Christ's. ¹⁸ Let no one as umpire defraud you of your prize, if he delights in excessive humility and ceremonial worship of the angels, searching into his own visions, emptily puffed up by his fleshly mind ¹⁹ and not holding to the Head, from whom the whole body, supplied and held together by joints and bands, grows as God gives it growth.

¹ AND I in coming to you, brethren, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God. ² For I determined to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ — and him crucified. ³ And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, ⁴ and my speech and my proclamation were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but with spiritual and powerful proof, ⁵ that your faith might not depend on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.

²⁰ O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you, turning away from profane and empty talk and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge."

¹³ And these we speak of, not in words taught by man's wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual things in spiritual words.

⁹ But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies and strife and quarrels about the Law; for they are unprofitable and futile. ¹⁰ If a man is factious, after one or two warnings, have nothing more to do with him,

⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.