What Does the Bible Say About Learning New Things?

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

2 Thessalonians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.

Philippians 2:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 Corinthians 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.

1 Corinthians 13:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 8:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Romans 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

John 21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

John 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Mark 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

Mark 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Psalm 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

With the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.

Deuteronomy 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

1 John 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,

Matthew 24:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

28 Bible Verses about Learning New Things

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Romans 8:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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28 Bible Verses about Learning New Things

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2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 7:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 18:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Thessalonians 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 24:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote