22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge
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I see there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works. That is his portion. Who will bring him to see what will happen after him?
Who knows what is good for man in this life? Are all the days of his vain life that he spends like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after his existence under the sun?
For man does not know his time. Like fish caught in an evil net, and like birds 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 predict what will be and what will be after him. Who can tell him?
Give a portion to seven, and even to eight. You do not know what calamity will be upon the earth.
Know this, if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have watched and his house would not have been vandalized.
I am compelled by the spirit to go to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there.
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Some secret things are hidden. They belong to Jehovah our God. The things that have been revealed in these teachings belong to us and to our children forever. We must obey every word of this Law.
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
He replied: Go your way, Daniel for the words are kept secret and sealed till the time of the end.
No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven do not know. The Son of God does not know. Only the Father knows!
No one in heaven, on earth or under the earth was able to open the book and look inside.
When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven say to me: Seal up those things that the seven thunders spoke. Do not write them.
But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When you eat of it you will surely die.
I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot endure them now.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, and then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
It was not made known to other generations of the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be. We know that when he is revealed we will be like him. We will see him just as he is.
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- Withheld (39 instances)