10 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Since indeed the Jews ask for miracles, and the Greeks seek after wisdom;

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with the wisdom of speech, in order that the cross of Christ may not be made of none effect.

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nought the understanding of the intelligent.

I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to this mystery, in order that you may not he wise with yourselves, that blindness in part has happened unto Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles may come in;

Where is the wise man? where is the scribe? where is the investigator of this age? has not God rendered the wisdom of the world foolishness?

Let no one deceive himself. If any one seems to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and purity of God, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have sojourned in the world, and especially towards you.

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

Have the same mind toward one another, not thinking high things, but condescending to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.