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Wisdom And Knowledge James 1:5 ESV / 424 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 1:7 ESV / 408 helpful votes The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.Psalm 111:10 ESV / 283 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 2:1-22 ESV / 248 helpful votes My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. …Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 218 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.Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 176 helpful votes And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.Colossians 2:8 ESV / 145 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.1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 132 helpful votes Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 132 helpful votes “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.1 Corinthians 3:19-20 ESV / 111 helpful votes For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”James 3:17 ESV / 106 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 2:6 ESV / 104 helpful votes For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;2 Chronicles 1:7-12 ESV / 100 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 possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king, …Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 98 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. …James 3:15-18 ESV / 91 helpful votes This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.Romans 1:22-25 ESV / 81 helpful votes Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.Proverbs 20:15 ESV / 76 helpful votes There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 64 helpful votes He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you wil
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