22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge
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Do not boast about tomorrow; for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work, because that is their reward; for who can show them what the future holds?
For no one knows what is best for a person during his life -- during the few days of his fleeting life -- for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.
Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.
Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare -- just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.
yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?
Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth.
But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,
You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
Secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.
He said, "Go, Daniel. For these matters are closed and sealed until the time of the end.
"But as for that day or hour no one knows it -- neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son -- except the Father.
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look into it.
When the seven thunders spoke, I was preparing to write, but just then I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders spoke and do not write it down."
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die."
Jesus replied, "You do not understand what I am doing now, but you will understand after these things."
For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
Now this secret was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
Dear friends, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
