9 Bible Verses about Philosophy

But I will seek to God, and to God set my cause: He did great things, and no searching;. and wonders even no number: He gave rain upon the face of the earth, and sent waters upon the out places: read more.
To raise up the humbled to height; and those mourning were exalted to salvation. Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking. He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong. The days they will meet darkness, and they will grope in the noon day as night And he saved the needy from the sword, from their mouth and from the band of the strong one. And hope will be to the poor one, and iniquity contracted her mouth. Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty: For he will cause pain, and he will bind up: he will smite and his hands will heal. In six straits he will deliver thee, and in seven, evil shall not touch upon thee. In famine he redeemed thee from death, and in war from the hands of the sword.

Saying to God, Thou wilt not condemn me; make known to me for what thou wilt contend with me. Is it good to thee that thou wilt oppress, that thou wilt despise the labor of thy hinds, and thou didst shine upon the counsels of the unjust? Were eyes of flesh to thee? or wilt thou see as man saw? read more.
Are thy days as man's days? or thy years as the days of man? That thou wilt seek for mine iniquity, and wilt search out for my sins? Upon thy knowledge that I will not do evil; and none delivering from thy hand. Thy hands formed me, and they will work me together round about; and thou wilt swallow me down. Remember now, thou didst make me as day; and thou wilt turn me back to dust. Wilt thou not weigh me out as milk, and coagulate me as cheese? Thou wilt clothe me with skin and flesh, and thou wilt hedge me with bones and sinews. Thou didst with me life and mercy, and thy reviewing watched my spirit And these thou didst hide in thy heart: I knew that this is with thee. If I sinned; and thou didst watch me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I did evil, wo to me; and was I just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with dishonor: and see thou mine affliction; And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me. Thou wilt renew thy testimonies before me, and thou wilt increase thy wrath upon me; changes and war with me. And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me. I shall be as I was not; I shall be brought from the womb to the grave. Is it not my days few? He will cease; he will turn from me, and I shall be cheerful a little, Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

The tents to those oppressing will be secure, and confidence to those provoking God to anger: whom God will bring into his hand But ask now the beasts and they shall teach thee; and the birds of the heavens, and they shall announce to thee: Or speak to the earth and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall recount to thee. read more.
Who knew not in all these that the hand of God did this? Which in his hand the soul of all living, and the spirit of all the flesh of man. Shall not the ear try words? and the palate shall taste food to it? With old men is wisdom, and length of days, understanding With him wisdom and strength, to him counsel and understanding. Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened. Behold, he will hold back upon the waters, and they will dry up: and he will send them forth and they will overturn the earth. With him strength and purpose:to him the one led astray and him leading astray. Leading away counselors stripped off and he will make foolish the judges He loosed the bonds of kings, and he will gird upon their loins a girdle. Leading away priests stripped off, and he will overthrow the mighty. Removing the lip to the faithful, and he will take discernment of old men. Proving contempt upon nobles, and he slackened the girdle of the strong. Revealing deep things from darkness, and he will bring to light the shadow of death. Making great to the nations, and he will destroy them: he spread out to the nations, and he will guide them. Taking away the heart of the heads of the people of the earth, and he will cause them to wander in a waste, not a way.

Behold, this thou wert not just: I will answer thee, for God will be great above man. Wherefore didst thou contend against him? for he will not answer all his words. For God will speak at once, and at a second time, and he shall not regard it. read more.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, in the falling of deep sleep upon men, in slumbers upon the bed; Then he will uncover the ear of men, and will seal in their instruction, To remove man from working, and he will bide pride from man. He will keep back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the spear. And he was chastened with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones perpetually. His life loathed bread, and his soul food of desire. His flesh will consume away from seeing, and they saw not the nakedness of his bones. And his soul will draw near to the pit, and his life to the dead. If there is a messenger upon him, an interpreter, one from a thousand, to announce to man his uprightness: And he will compassionate him and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I found an expiation. His flesh revived above a youth: he shall turn back to the days of his childhood. He shall pray to God and he shall receive him into favor: and he shall see his face with rejoicing, and he will turn back to man his justice. He will look upon men, and he shall say, I sinned, and I perverted the right, and it was not fitting to me; Redeem my soul from passing into the pit, and my life shall look upon light Behold, all these God will work twice, thrice, with man, To turn back his soul from the pit, to enlighten with the light of the living.

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 since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.

Which also we speak, not in words taught of man's wisdom, but in them taught of the Holy Spirit; examining spiritual things by spiritual.

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

And I having come to you, brethren, came not with eminence of word or of wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God. For I judged not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much tremor, was with you. read more.
And my word and my proclaiming not in persuasible words of man's wisdom, but in manifestation of the Spirit and of power That your faith might not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

O Timothy, watch that which holds firm, turning aside from profane, idle talk, and oppositions of knowledge, bearing a false name:

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

Therefore let not any judge you in food, or in drink, or in turn of festival, or of the new moon, or of sabbaths: Which are a shadow of things about to be; and the body of Christ. Let none condemn you being willing in humility and religious worship of angels, going into what he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, read more.
And not having power over the Head, from whom all the body, by all the senses of touch and connections furnished and joined together, increases with the increase of God.

Wherefore that known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested to them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:

The glory of God to conceal the word: and the glory of kings to search the word.

For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing. And since the Jews ask a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom:

But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory: Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. read more.
But as has been written. Which the eye saw not, and the ear heard not, and upon the heart of man it came not up, what things God has prepared for them loving him. And God has revealed to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, and the deep things of God.

And certain of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers deliberated with him. And certain said, What may this idle, talkative man wish to say? and others, He seems to be a declarer of strange demons: because he announced to them good news, and the rising up.