10 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

For this world's wisdom is mere nonsense to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

While Jews are demanding spectacular signs and Greeks are searching for philosophy,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news -- but not by means of wisdom and rhetoric, so that the cross of Christ may not be emptied of its power.

For the Scripture says: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the learning of the learned."

For to keep you from being self-conceited, brothers, I do not want to have a misunderstanding of this uncovered secret, that only temporary insensibility has come upon Israel until the full quota of the heathen peoples comes in,

So where is your philosopher? Where is your man of letters? Where is your logician of this age? Has not God shown up the nonsense of the world's wisdom?

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in this world's wisdom, as compared with the rest of you, to become really wise he must become a fool.

For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.

This is not the kind of wisdom that comes down from above; no, it is earthly, human, demoniacal.

Keep on thinking in harmony with one another. Stop being high-minded but keep on associating with lowly people. Stop being conceited.