13 Bible Verses about Worldly Wisdom

For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.

"but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be darkened. If then the very light within you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

At that time Jesus answered and said: "I praise thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and wary, and hast revealed them to the children.

For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While they professed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the majesty of the imperishable God for an idol, graven in the likeness of perishable man, or of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

And when I came to you, brothers, I came not to proclaim God's great secret purpose in fine language of philosophy; for I determined to know nothing, while among you, but Jesus as Christ, and him a crucified Christ. In weakness and fear and great trembling came I among you.read more.
My message and my preaching were not in the persuasive language of philosophy, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; in order that your faith should rest, not on human philosophy, but on the power of God. Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought. No, it is God's wisdom that I utter, that hidden wisdom which God had decreed before the world began, unto our glory. None of the rulers of the present age understands it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Nay, as it is written. Eye has not seen, Nor ear heard, Neither have entered into man's heart The things which God has prepared For those who love him. Yet God has unveiled them to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit fathoms everything, even the abysmal depths of God. For what man knows the depths of man except the man's own inner Spirit? Even so, also, the Spirit of God knows the deeps profound of God. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God. Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men. The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,

Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

O, Timothy, guard the treasure which is committed to you. Shun the profane babblings and contradictions of the falsely called "knowledge" which some professing have erred from the faith. Grace be with you.

While they professed to be wise, they became fools,

For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound.

Notwithstanding, among those who are mature I do teach philosophy; though not the philosophy of the present age, nor of its rulers who are coming to nought.

For however many are the promises of God, in him they are "Yes." Therefore also through him let the Amen be said by our voices to the glory of God.

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.