Sentences with phrase «knowledge puffs up»

This is not to say that academic education was undervalued but that «knowledge puffs up» and can make such clever people arrogant if they don't have a genuine and sincere love for those less blessed.

However it seems to me that I ought to be always careful, in the light of the apostle's warning that» Knowledge puffs up with pride; whereas love builds up.

And if you focused on learning about God, theology, or increasing in knowledge of scripture, you were frequently and often rebuked (knowledge puffs up, love edifies), and instead of «selfishly» learning theology, you should be out converting people (increasing numbers).

It would be nice if some pastor, some where in the US, would be willing to equip the Saints and help them get to know God more instead of instilling guilt because they're not doing enough and when they ask for the pastor to lay off the hackneyed cliches even once in a while, they get something other than «knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.»

p.s. for Dave who gets so anguished at the mention of knowledge puffs up.

Paul says that «Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up» (1 Cor 8:1) and later that even if we have all knowledge, and understand all mysteries, and can speak in other languages, but have not love, all that knowledge is nothing (1 Cor 13:1 - 3).

Please note Dave that the verse does not say biblical knowledge puffs up.

And besides, the Bible says that «knowledge puffs up.

The apostle Paul says knowledge puffs up but loves builds up.

Not exact matches

Efficient, but let's not puff up the end result: What is obtained through belief can not be (rationally) claimed to be «knowledge».

Please, please yield and do not get puffed up in your perceived knowledge.

In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.

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Paul knew very well that it is very hard (yet not impossible) to keep from allowing knowledge to puff one up.

But those who in their own puffed up knowledge rely on their own natural senses, they Will NOT see Him in anything, although the witness of His Presence is all around them, and His fingerprints are evident on everything that exists.

If there is no «doing» that comes out of the «study,» then the acquired knowledge will only puff us up, and we all know what the Bible says about pride.

Dear reader: please lay aside any and all traditional, biased schools of thought within the realm of prideful, puffed - up knowledge.

puffed - up attitudes and their problem is due to too much focus on Bible knowledge.

Odds are if you examine it, the 1000 sermons that supposedly are puffing him up with knowledge are just the same hackneyed cliches repeated for the 1,000 th time.

He becomes puffed up with knowledge and power.

When scripture uses the word «knowledge» it is not often positive... it «puffs up».

As though that knowledge were anything but infamy in any person who in a cowardly and traitorous and envious and empty puffed - up manner dares to make such a comment!