10 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

For the philosophy of this world is foolishness in God's sight. It is written, He snares the wise in their own craftiness,

Jews continue to ask for miracles and Greeks are ever wanting philosophy,

For Christ did not think I baptized any one else. For Christ did not send me forth to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel; and that not in philosophic words, lest the Cross of Christ should be made an empty thing.

For thus it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the philosophers, And the prudence of the prudent will I confound.

For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.

Sage, rabbi, skeptic of this present age??here are they all? Has not God made foolish the philosophy of the world?

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike.

Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits.