22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge
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Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him back to see what shall be after him?
For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Give a portion to seven, yea, even unto eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.
But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
And no one in the heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book, or to look thereon.
And when the seven thunders uttered their voices , I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt understand hereafter.
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
which in other generation was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
Bible Theasaurus
- Withheld (39 instances)