Philosophy

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. — read the full passage →

Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

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

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: — read the full passage →

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: — read the full passage →

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth. — read the full passage →

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. — read the full passage →

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: — read the full passage →

He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. — read the full passage →

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: — read the full passage →

Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man. — read the full passage →

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. — read the full passage →

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. — read the full passage →

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. — read the full passage →

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: — read the full passage →

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: — read the full passage →

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: — read the full passage →

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. — read the full passage →

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? — read the full passage →

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: — read the full passage →

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. — read the full passage →

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. — read the full passage →

The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; — read the full passage →

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, — read the full passage →

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: — read the full passage →

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. — read the full passage →

And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.