Philosophy

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

Surely there is for silver a source, And a place for the gold they refine; — read the full passage →

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

for, seeing in the wisdom of God the world through the wisdom knew not God, it did please God through the foolishness of the preaching to save those believing.

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age--of those becoming useless, — read the full passage →

And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

The honour of God <FI>is<Fi> to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.

thou--thou dost believe that God is one; thou dost well, and the demons believe, and they shudder!

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth. — read the full passage →

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil. — read the full passage →

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

`And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

for it hath been written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will bring to nought;'

Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth--

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

Yet I--I inquire for God, And for God I give my word, — read the full passage →

he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought. — read the full passage →

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it <FI>is<Fi> great on man: — read the full passage →

Lo, <FI>in<Fi> this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man. — read the full passage →

And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors <FI>is<Fi> power, and they have no comforter. — read the full passage →

Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

I say unto God, `Do not condemn me, Let me know why Thou dost strive <FI>with<Fi> me. — read the full passage →

in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

where <FI>is<Fi> the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and <FI>in<Fi> worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

And having passed through Amphipolis, and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was the synagogue of the Jews, — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation, — read the full passage →

And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age--of those becoming useless,

God <FI>is<Fi> a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom, — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

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

To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens: — read the full passage →

I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it <FI>is<Fi> vanity. — read the full passage →

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

by faith we understand the ages to have been prepared by a saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of things appearing;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

For to which of the messengers said He ever, `My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, `I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?' — read the full passage →

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge, — read the full passage →

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God,

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

and now, having known God--and rather being known by God--how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know <FI>them<Fi> , because spiritually they are discerned;

that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. — read the full passage →

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — 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 who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens. — read the full passage →

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

Righteous <FI>is<Fi> the first in his own cause, His neighbour cometh and hath searched him.

The heart of the intelligent getteth knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

Desist, and know that I <FI>am<Fi> God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do 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 did pass away, and the sea is not any more; — read the full passage →

The Elder to the choice Kyria, and to her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those having known the truth, — read the full passage →

and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets, — read the full passage →

forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths, — read the full passage →

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, — read the full passage →

and this I say, that no one may beguile you in enticing words,