Romans 16:19
I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, do not become children in understanding; be babes in malice, but in understanding become mature men.
Romans 1:22
While they professed to be wise, they became fools,
Matthew 23:16-26
"Woe unto you, blind guides, who say, If any one swears by the Sanctuary, it is nothing, but if any one swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, the oath is binding.
Luke 16:8
"And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.
John 16:3
"And they will do these things because they have not known my Father, nor me.
Romans 1:28
And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent.
Romans 3:11
There is none that understands, none that seeks for God!
1 Corinthians 1:20-21
Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?