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100 Bible Verses about Gods Wisdom

James 1:5 ESV / 1,416 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.

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 1,150 helpful votes

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

James 3:17 ESV / 1,103 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.

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 887 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 1:7 ESV / 838 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 810 helpful votes

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

Romans 11:33 ESV / 802 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 793 helpful votes

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

James 3:13 ESV / 729 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 40:28 ESV / 715 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.

Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 713 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 708 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:7 ESV / 700 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 693 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 683 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.

Colossians 4:5-6 ESV / 662 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.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 659 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 615 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 602 helpful votes

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 595 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 28:29 ESV / 578 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 574 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 18:15 ESV / 572 helpful votes

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

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 557 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.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 544 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 539 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.

Daniel 2:23 ESV / 539 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.”

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 532 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 522 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.

Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 520 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,

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 514 helpful votes

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 510 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.

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 503 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 500 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 499 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:3 ESV / 491 helpful votes

Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 ESV / 485 helpful votes

Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.

Proverbs 3:13 ESV / 476 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 468 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 463 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.

Psalm 37:30 ESV / 463 helpful votes

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

Luke 21:15 ESV / 440 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 55:8 ESV / 440 helpful votes

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

Job 28:28 ESV / 438 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 4:6-7 ESV / 431 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.

Proverbs 10:23 ESV / 429 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 425 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 423 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:35 ESV / 423 helpful votes

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

Job 12:12 ESV / 423 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 10:12 ESV / 421 helpful votes

The words of a wise man's mouth win him favor, but the lips of a fool consume him.

Daniel 2:20 ESV / 404 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 400 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 15:12 ESV / 397 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 1:18 ESV / 389 helpful votes

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Proverbs 3:13-18 ESV / 388 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. ...

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 369 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 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. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 369 helpful votes

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

1 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 363 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:2 ESV / 360 helpful votes

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 359 helpful votes

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 356 helpful votes

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

Colossians 2:3 ESV / 354 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:1-29:27 ESV / 353 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 351 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 13:1-20:30 ESV / 351 helpful votes

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke. From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good, but the desire of the treacherous is for violence. Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace. ...

Ephesians 5:15-17 ESV / 347 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.

Psalm 147:5 ESV / 342 helpful votes

Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.

Proverbs 12:1-16:33 ESV / 339 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...

Proverbs 4:1-11:31 ESV / 324 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Proverbs 10:1-11:31 ESV / 322 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. ...

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 320 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:1-5:23 ESV / 319 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Proverbs 3:1-13:25 ESV / 318 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Proverbs 17:27-28 ESV / 316 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.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 304 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.

Proverbs 1:1-23:35 ESV / 299 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

Revelation 5:12 ESV / 298 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!”

Proverbs 4:5 ESV / 295 helpful votes

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

Job 12:13 ESV / 295 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 10:12 ESV / 289 helpful votes

It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.

2 Chronicles 1:7-12 ESV / 287 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, ...

2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 285 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.

Psalm 136:5 ESV / 276 helpful votes

To him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Proverbs 3:19-20 ESV / 267 helpful votes

The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 258 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. ...

Colossians 1:9 ESV / 256 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 1:1-7:27 ESV / 253 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 250 helpful votes

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

2 Peter 1:3-4 ESV / 249 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, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 249 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. ...

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 245 helpful votes

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

Proverbs 14:8 ESV / 242 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 34:9 ESV / 237 helpful votes

And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

James 3:2 ESV / 235 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 233 helpful votes

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Ephesians 1:1-23 ESV / 220 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, ...

Proverbs 14:33 ESV / 217 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:30 ESV / 214 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 210 helpful votes

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

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