10 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

For God ranks this world's wisdom as 'sheer folly.' It is written, He seizes the wise in their craftiness,

Jews demand miracles and Greeks want wisdom,

Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel. And to preach it with no fine rhetoric, lest the cross of Christ should lose its power!

It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the sages, I will confound the insight of the wise.

To prevent you from being self-conceited, brothers, I would like you to understand this secret: it is only a partial insensibility that has come over Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in.

Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world?

Let no one deceive himself about this; whoever of you imagines he is wise with this world's wisdom must become a 'fool,' if he is really to be wise.

My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.

That is not the wisdom which comes down from above, it is an earthly wisdom, sensuous, devilish;

Keep in harmony with one another; instead of being ambitious, associate with humble folk; never be self-conceited.