22 Bible Verses about Withheld Knowledge
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Therefore I have seen that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
For man also does not know his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
A fool also makes many words; a man knows not what they shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Give a share to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be on the earth.
But know this, that if the steward of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have allowed his house to be dug through.
And now, behold, I am going bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall happen to me there,
who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.
The secret things belong to Jehovah our God, but the revealed things belong to us and to our sons forever, so that we may do all the words of this Law.
The glory of God is to hide a thing; but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.
And He said, Go, Daniel! For the words are closed up and sealed until the end-time.
But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.
And no one in Heaven, nor on the earth, nor under the earth, was able to open the book or to look at it.
And when the seven thunders spoke their sounds, I was about to write. And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Seal up what things the seven thunders spoke, and do not write these things.
but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
Jesus answered and said to him, You do not know what I do now, but you shall know hereafter.
I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know even as I also am fully known.
which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be. But we know that when He shall be revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
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- Withheld (39 instances)