22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge
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So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy [the fruit of] his labor, for this is his lot in life. {For no one knows what will happen in the future.}
For who knows what [is] good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future} under the sun?
For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also {humans} are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them.
The fool {talks too much}, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen {in the future}?
Divide your share in seven or in eight, for you do not know what disaster will happen on the earth.
But understand this: that if the master of the house had known what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
"And now behold, bound by the Spirit I am traveling to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me {there},
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.
"The hidden [things] {belong to Yahweh} our God, but the revealed [things] {belong to us} [to know] and to our children {forever}, [in order] to do all the words of this law."
And he said, "Go, Daniel, for the words [are] secret and [are] sealed [up] until [the] time of [the] end.
"But concerning that day or hour no one knows--not even the angels in heaven nor the Son--except the Father.
And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it.
And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up [the things] which the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them!"
but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day {that you eat} from it {you shall surely die}."
Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these [things]."
I still have many [things] to say to you, but you are not able to bear [them] now.
For now we see through a mirror {indirectly}, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know completely, just as I have also been completely known.
(which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit):
Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
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- Withheld (39 instances)