32 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, He seizing the wise in their deceptions.

And thou wilt trust in thy wickedness: thou saidst, None saw me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it caused thee to turn away; and thou wilt say in thy heart, I, and none yet besides me.

And since the Jews ask a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom:

Lest ye shall say, We found wisdom: God will thrust him, not man.

Thou shalt not be greatly just; and thou shalt not be exceedingly wise: wherefore wilt thou be made desolate?

For Christ sent me not to immerse, but to announce good news: not in wisdom of word, lest the cross of Christ be made void.

For this, behold me adding to be wonderful with this people, dealing wonderfully and being a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise perished, and the understanding of their understanding ones shall be hid.

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

The wise were ashamed, they were confounded, and they will be taken: behold, they rejected in the word of Jehovah; and what wisdom to them?

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

Bringing to naught the signs at vain boasters, and he will make those divining, foolish; turning back the wise backward, and he will frustrate their knowledge.

Thine heart was lifted up with thy beauty, thou didst corrupt thy wisdom on account of thy splendor: I cast thee upon the earth, I gave thee before kings to look upon thee.

For I will not ye should not know, brethren, this mystery, lest ye be wise with yourselves; for hardness from part has been to Israel, till the filling up of the nations come in.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Let none completely deceive himself. If any think to be wise in this life, let him be foolish, that he may he wise.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

Come, we will be wise with them, lest they shall multiply, and it was when war shall happen, and also being added to our armies and fighting against us, and they went up from the land.

This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.

Thou shalt not be wise in thine eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.

Answer the foolish according to his folly lest he shall be wise in his own eyes.

The slothful one is wise in his eyes more than seven turning back a reason.

Wo to the wise in their eyes, and knowing before their face.

The rich man is wise in his eyes, and the poor one understanding shall search him out.

Sawest thou a man wise in his eyes? hope is for the foolish one more than for him.

For this, men shall fear him: he will not see all the wise of heart.

Shalt thou hear in the consultation of God? and wilt thou reserve wisdom to thyself?

For he said, By strength of my hand I did, and by my wisdom, for I was discreet: and I will remove the bounds of the people, and their things prepared I plundered, and I will bring down as a strong one the inhabitants.

Thus said Jehovah, The wise shall not boast in his wisdom, and the strong shall not boast in his strength; the rich shall not boast in his riches:

How shall ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah with us? Behold, surely for falsehood he made the style of the scribes a lie.

The words of his mouth vanity and deceit: he ceased to be circumspect, to do good.