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
Yes, for this very reason you do your part with all diligence. Supply virtue to your faith. Add knowledge to your virtue.
Call out for insight. Lift up your voice for understanding. Search for wisdom as if it were silver. Hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure! If you do these things you will have respect for Jehovah and you will find the true knowledge of God!
How blessed is the man who finds wisdom. Happy is the man who gains understanding.
The heart of one with understanding seeks knowledge. The mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
Buy the truth and do not sell it. Also buy wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Vanity of human
If any man thinks he knows any thing, he really knows nothing, according to what he ought to know.
I make fools of fortunetellers and frustrate the predictions of astrologers. The words of the wise I refute and show that their wisdom is foolishness.
Love never fails. Where there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away. Where there are tongues, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Pursuit of, exhausting
By these, my son, be admonished! There is no end to publishing many books. Also 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
In much wisdom there is much grief for he who increases knowledge increases pain.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Begets pride
Concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Tends to presumption
Jehovah said: The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever. Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
Knowledge » May become a hinderance instead of a help to men » Desire for, a source of temptation
God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened. Then you will be like God, knowing good and evil. When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.