Bible Verses About Philosophy

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

“Behold, God works all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

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

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Yeshua and the resurrection.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.