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
And also this same, having brought in at the side all earnestness, furnish in addition in your faith fitness; and In fitness knowledge;
For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure; Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and thou shalt find the knowledge of God.
Happy the man finding wisdom; and the man shall bring forth understanding.
Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth.
The heart of him understanding will seek knowledge: and the face of the foolish will feed folly.
Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Vanity of human
And if any one thinks to know anything, as yet he has known nothing as he ought to know.
Bringing to naught the signs at vain boasters, and he will make those divining, foolish; turning back the wise backward, and he will frustrate their knowledge.
Love never falters: but whether gifts of prophecies, they shall be left unemployed; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall be left unemployed.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Pursuit of, exhausting
And besides, from these, my son, beware: of making many books, no end; and much study wearies the flesh.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Adds to the burden of life
For in abundance of wisdom, abundance of trouble: and he adding knowledge will increase pain.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Begets pride
And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Tends to presumption
And Jehovah God will say, Lo, Adam became as one from us, to know good and evil: and now lest he shall send forth his hand and take also of the tree of lives, and eat, and live to eternity: And Jehovah God will send. him forth from the garden of Eden to work the earth which he was taken from there.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Desire for, a source of temptation
For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat