Philosophy

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine. — read the full passage →

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

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing. — read the full passage →

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, — read the full passage →

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

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil. — read the full passage →

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, — read the full passage →

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands. — read the full passage →

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

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man. — read the full passage →

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who 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 →

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. — read the full passage →

in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those 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 lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

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

who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. — read the full passage →

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom, — read the full passage →

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

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure”; and behold, this also was vanity. — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today have I become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?” — read the full passage →

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called; — read the full passage →

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal 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 everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all those who know the truth; — read the full passage →

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day, — read the full passage →

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,

For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, — read the full passage →

Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.