13 Bible Verses about Worldly Wisdom

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.

If thine eye may be bad, thy whole body will be dark. Then if the light which is in you is darkness, the darkness is so great.

At that time Jesus responding said, I praise thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and reveal them unto babes.

because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened. Saying that they were wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the invisible God into the similitude of the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, and of quadrupeds, and of creeping things.

And I, brethren, having come unto you, came not in the excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming unto you the testimony of God. For I determine to know nothing among you, except Jesus Christ, and Him having been crucified. I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.read more.
And my speech and my preaching were not in the persuasive words of wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit and the power: in order that your faith may not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought: but we speak the wisdom of God having been hidden in a mystery, which God predestinated before the ages unto our glory: which no one of the princes of this age knew; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as has been written, the things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who of men knows the things of man, except the spirit of the man which is in him? so indeed no one knows the things of God, except the Spirit of God. But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God; in order that we may know the things which have been graciously given unto us from God. Which things indeed we speak, not in the teachable words of human wisdom, but in the teachable words of the Spirit, expounding spiritual things to spiritual people. But the intellectual man receives not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; and he is not able to know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

See that no one shall be deceiving you through philosophy and empty delusion, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ,

O Timothy, stand guard over that which has been committed to you, avoiding unsanctified, empty talks and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called, which some proclaiming have made shipwreck concerning the faith. Grace be with you.

Saying that they were wise, they became fools,

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nought the understanding of the intelligent.

But we speak wisdom among the perfect: not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nought:

For so many promises of God, in Him are yes; therefore indeed through him they are Amen unto the glory to God through us.

Which indeed are having a word of wisdom in will worship, and humiliation, and austerity of the body; not in any value against the indulgence of the flesh.