10 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

For the wisdom of this world is folly in the sight of God. For it is written, "He entangleth the wise in their own craftiness."

For the Jews demand a miracle, and the Greeks seek wisdom:

For Christ sent me not to baptise, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of discourse, lest the cross of Christ should be slighted.

For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the understanding of the intelligent will I make useless."

For I would not that you should be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is come on Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Where is the sophist? where is the scribe? where is the inquisitive searcher after this world's wisdom? hath not God turned into folly the wisdom of this world?

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinketh himself a wise man in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with carnal wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and peculiarly towards you.

This is not the wisdom which cometh from above, but is earthly, sensual, diabolical.

Be of the same mind among each other. Affect not high things, but be condescending to the lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.