Bible Verses About Philosophy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for philosophy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,453 votes, led by Colossians 2:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Philosophy
Colossians 2:8511 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Job 28:1-28434 votes
Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
1 Corinthians 2:13124 votes
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1 Timothy 6:20105 votes
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Titus 3:9-10103 votes
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
1 Corinthians 2:1-579 votes
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
1 Corinthians 1:2176 votes
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1 Corinthians 2:6-1073 votes
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
Acts 17:1859 votes
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Proverbs 25:253 votes
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Colossians 2:16-1946 votes
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
James 2:1943 votes
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-2940 votes
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
1 John 4:137 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Ecclesiastes 5:1-2036 votes
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Romans 1:1931 votes
Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
John 3:1630 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 10:2829 votes
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
1 Corinthians 1:1929 votes
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Romans 6:2328 votes
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:2226 votes
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
Genesis 1:124 votes
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1 Corinthians 1:1724 votes
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Job 5:922 votes
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
1 Timothy 2:422 votes
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
What does the Bible say about philosophy?
Readers most often cite Colossians 2:8 on the subject of philosophy. Across 2,453 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Job 28:1-28, 1 Corinthians 2:13, 1 Timothy 6:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.