22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge

Boast not yourself of tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.

Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his lot: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

For man also knows not his time: as the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

But know this, that if the owner of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.

And he said, Go your way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels who are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the scroll, neither to look thereon.

And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall know hereafter.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.

For now we see in a mirror dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Beloved, now are we the children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.