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100 Bible Verses about Understanding And Wisdom

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 93 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

James 1:5 ESV / 85 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

James 3:17 ESV / 73 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 61 helpful votes

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 60 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 4:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 42 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 36 helpful votes

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Job 28:28 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

Proverbs 14:8 ESV / 35 helpful votes

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

Proverbs 4:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Romans 11:33 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Job 12:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 4:6-7 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

James 3:13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

Colossians 1:9 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 25 helpful votes

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 25 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Luke 21:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.

Ecclesiastes 8:1 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 11:30 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.

Proverbs 10:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,

Proverbs 3:13-18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. ...

Psalm 107:43 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 24 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Proverbs 15:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

Daniel 2:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes

To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”

Psalm 37:30 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

James 1:5-6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

1 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Isaiah 28:29 ESV / 18 helpful votes

This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Proverbs 17:27-28 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding. Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Proverbs 4:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

Job 12:13 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.

2 Chronicles 1:7-12 ESV / 18 helpful votes

In that night God appeared to Solomon, and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.” And Solomon said to God, “You have shown great and steadfast love to David my father, and have made me king in his place. O Lord God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?” God answered Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked for possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked for long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king, ...

Proverbs 23:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Revelation 5:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

Revelation 5:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

James 1:1-27 ESV / 12 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Colossians 4:5-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Colossians 2:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Ephesians 1:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, ...

2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

John 8:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Luke 2:52 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.

Matthew 13:44 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Daniel 2:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Proverbs 24:3-7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might, for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory. Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.

Proverbs 24:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Proverbs 16:23 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

Proverbs 15:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 14:33 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 12 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 10:13 ESV / 12 helpful votes

On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.

Proverbs 9:11-12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Proverbs 8:35 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,

Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. ...

Proverbs 4:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

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