What Does the Bible Say About Wit?

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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,

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says.

Romans 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

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.

John 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Luke 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Luke 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Mark 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Hosea 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands, they would be regarded as a strange thing.

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Proverbs 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;

2 Kings 23:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

Genesis 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ...

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

30 Bible Verses about Wit

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hosea 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 23:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Suggest a Verse

Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)

30 Bible Verses about Wit

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hosea 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 23:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote Helpful Not Helpful

Suggest a Verse

Enter a Verse Reference (e.g., John 3:16-17)

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 14:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 17:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 16:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hosea 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 23:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 19:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 6:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote