What Does the Bible Say About Unwise?

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

1 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

John 2:3-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. ...

Proverbs 23:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ...

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

1 Thessalonians 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that “an idol has no real existence,” and that “there is no God but one.” For although there may be so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”— ...

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

1 Corinthians 9:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord? If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. This is my defense to those who would examine me. Do we not have the right to eat and drink? Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? ...

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 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.

Romans 14:15-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died. So do not let what you regard as good be spoken of as evil. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. ...

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 31:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.

Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. ...

Job 38:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:

Job 35:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

34 Bible Verses about Unwise

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 2:3-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:15-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 38:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 35:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Unwise

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1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 23:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Corinthians 9:19-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 2:3-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 9:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:15-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 104:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 38:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 35:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 1 helpful vote