11 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Knowledge

Now concerningfood offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge"puffs up, but love builds up.

If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.

And you his son,Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge,"

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."

Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."