What Does the Bible Say About Making Wise Choices?

1 Timothy 6:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But godliness with contentment is great gain,

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

James 1:5 ESV / 3 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 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

Genesis 38:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.

Genesis 38:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her, and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan. Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him. ...

Genesis 25:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife, because she was barren. And the Lord granted his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is thus, why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Genesis 21:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Galatians 1:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,

Acts 17:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Luke 1:42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Luke 1:24-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

After these days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and for five months she kept herself hidden, saying, “Thus the Lord has done for me in the days when he looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.”

Luke 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Deuteronomy 25:5-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.

Genesis 33:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 13:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord. And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, ...

Genesis 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.”

32 Bible Verses about Making Wise Choices

1 Timothy 6:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 25:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 21:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 1:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 17:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:24-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 25:5-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 33:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 13:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Making Wise Choices

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1 Timothy 6:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 37:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 25:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 21:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Galatians 1:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 17:28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:24-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 30:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Deuteronomy 25:5-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 33:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 13:1-18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote