10 Bible Verses about False Wisdom

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: "He that taketh the wise in their craftiness;"

since even Jews ask for signs, and the Greeks seek for wisdom;

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of speech, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nought the discernment of the discerning."

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness hath to some extent come upon Israel, until the fullness of the gentiles shall have come in.

Where is the wise man? Where the scribe? Where the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and the sincerity which is of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

This wisdom is not that which descendeth from above, but earthly, sensual, devilish.

Be of one mind among yourselves. Set not your minds on high things, but content yourselves with what is humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.