Bible Verses About Philosophy

Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.

Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy--no way!

Lo, in this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When for all His matters He answereth not?

For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)

In a dream--a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth:

To turn aside man from doing, And pride from man He concealeth.

He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.

And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones is enduring.

And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.

His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!

And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.

If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter--one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:

Then He doth favour him and saith, `Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'

Fresher is his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.

He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.

He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

Lo, all these doth God work, Twice--thrice with man,

To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.

The honour of God is to hide a thing, And the honour of kings to search out a matter.

And certain of the Epicurean and of the Stoic philosophers, were meeting together to see him, and some were saying, `What would this seed picker wish to say?' and others, `Of strange demons he doth seem to be an announcer;' because Jesus and the rising again he did proclaim to them as good news,

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest it to them,

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;