22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge
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So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there,
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
"The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out.
He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
"But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it,
And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down."
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand."
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
