Bible Verses about “philosophy”
The Bible contains 46 verses about philosophy across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;”
“¶ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”
“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.”
“¶ [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.”
“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane [and] vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:”
“But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”
“But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, [even] the hidden [wisdom], which God ordained before the world unto our glory:”
“And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.”
“And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:”
“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.”
“That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
“Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
“The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it [shall not be for] jewels of fine gold.”
“¶ 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:”
“The stones of it [are] the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.”
“No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom [is] above rubies.”
“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
“The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.”
“For he looketh to the ends of the earth, [and] seeth under the whole heaven;”
“When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:”
“And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.”
“¶ And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.”
“¶ Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold [where] they fine [it].”
“Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.”
“He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.”
“The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; [even the waters] forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.”
“[As for] the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.”
“[There is] a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen:”
“The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.”
“He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.”
“He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.”
“He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.”
“But where shall wisdom be found? and where [is] the place of understanding?”
“Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.”
“¶ The depth saith, It [is] not in me: and the sea saith, [It is] not with me.”
“It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed [for] the price thereof.”
“It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.”
“¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where [is] the place of understanding?”
“Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.”
“Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.”
“God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.”
“To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.”
“Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.”
“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.”