Thematic Bible: May become a hinderance instead of a help to men
Thematic Bible
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » The pursuit of encouraged
But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge,
yea, if thou criest after discernment and liftest up thy voice to understanding; if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures: then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
The heart of an intelligent man seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish feedeth on folly.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Vanity of human
If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.
he that frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Love never fails; but whether prophecies, they shall be done away; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be done away.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Pursuit of, exhausting
And besides, my son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Adds to the burden of life
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Begets pride
But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Tends to presumption
And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ...! Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Desire for, a source of temptation
but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.