22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge
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Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him [back] to see what shall be after him?
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.
A fool also multiplies words; [yet] man knows not what shall be, and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?
Give a portion to seven, yea, even to eight, for thou know not what evil shall be upon the earth.
But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
And now behold, I, bound in the spirit, am going to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me in it,
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
The secret things belong to LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.
But about that day or that hour no man knows, not even the agents in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.
And none in heaven above nor on the earth nor under the earth was able to open the book or to see in it.
And when the seven thunders uttered, I was going to write. And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Seal up what the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them.
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eat of it thou shall surely die.
Jesus answered and said to him, What I do thou do not know now, but thou will understand after these things.
I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now.
For now we see by polished metal, in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know just as also I was known.
which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.
Bible Theasaurus
- Withheld (39 instances)