10 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning,"

For Jews insist upon miracles, and Greeks demand philosophy,

For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the good news??ut not with fine language, or the cross of Christ might seem an empty thing.

For the Scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will thwart the shrewdness of the shrewd!"

For to keep you from thinking too well of yourselves, brothers, I do not want you to miss this secret, that only partial insensibility has come upon Israel, to last until all the heathen have come in,

Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom?

Let no one of you deceive himself. If any one of you imagines that he is wiser than the rest of you, in what this world calls wisdom, he had better become a fool, so as to become really wise.

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited.