If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God
Synonyms for Wisdom: intelligence, insight, sagacity, discernment, sageness, understanding, penetration, perception, sense, discretion, foresight, perceptiveness, and astuteness
Job 12:13 (ESV)
“With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Job 26:3 (ESV)
How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Job 28:16-18 (ESV)
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire. 17. Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. 18. No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.
Psalms 37:30 (ESV)
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Psalms 49:3 (ESV)
My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
Psalms 51:6 (ESV)
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Psalms 90:12 (ESV)
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 104:24 (ESV)
O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
Psalms 111:10 (ESV)
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Psalms 136:5 (ESV)
to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Proverbs 1:5 (ESV)
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Proverbs 1:7 (ESV)
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:20-22 (ESV)
Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; 21. at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: 22. “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 2:2 (ESV)
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:6 (ESV)
For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Proverbs 2:10 (ESV)
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Proverbs 3:13 (ESV)
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
Proverbs 4:5 (ESV)
Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:7 (ESV)
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
Proverbs 4:11 (ESV)
I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Proverbs 5:1 (ESV)
My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Proverbs 7:4 (ESV)
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,
Proverbs 8:1 (ESV)
Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Proverbs 8:5 (ESV)
O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
Proverbs 8:11 (ESV)
for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
Proverbs 8:12 (ESV)
“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 9:1 (ESV)
Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.
Proverbs 9:10 (ESV)
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs 10:13 (ESV)
On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
Proverbs 10:21 (ESV)
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
Proverbs 10:23 (ESV)
Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
Proverbs 10:31 (ESV)
The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Proverbs 11:2 (ESV)
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 13:10 (ESV)
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Proverbs 14:6 (ESV)
A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
Proverbs 14:8 (ESV)
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
Proverbs 14:33 (ESV)
Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
Proverbs 15:21 (ESV)
Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.
Proverbs 15:33 (ESV)
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 16:16 (ESV)
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 17:16 (ESV)
Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
Proverbs 17:24 (ESV)
The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 18:1 (ESV)
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
Proverbs 18:4 (ESV)
he words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Proverbs 19:8 (ESV)
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Proverbs 21:30 (ESV)
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord .
Proverbs 23:9 (ESV)
Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.
Proverbs 23:23 (ESV)
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 24:3 (ESV)
By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Proverbs 24:7 (ESV)
Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Proverbs 24:14 (ESV)
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 29:15 (ESV)
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Proverbs 30:3 (ESV)
I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
Proverbs 31:26 (ESV)
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Ecclesiastes 1:18 (ESV)
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ecclesiastes 2:13 (ESV)
Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.
Ecclesiastes 7:11 (ESV)
Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 (ESV)
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.
Ecclesiastes 7:19 (ESV)
Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Ecclesiastes 9:16 (ESV)
But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man’s wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
Isaiah 11:2 (ESV)
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 .
Jeremiah 10:12 (ESV)
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.
Romans 11:33 (ESV)
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
1 Corinthians 1:30 (ESV)
And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
1 Corinthians 2:4-5 (ESV)
and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5. so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:6-7 (ESV)
Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
1 Corinthians 3:19 (ESV)
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
2 Corinthians 1:12 (ESV)
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.
Ephesians 1:7-8 (ESV)
in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8. which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
Ephesians 1:17 (ESV)
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,
Ephesians 3:10 (ESV)
so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Colossians 1:28 (ESV)
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Colossians 3:16 (ESV)
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.
Colossians 4:5 (ESV)
Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
James 1:5 (ESV)
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 3:13-15 (ESV)
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
James 3:17 (ESV)
but the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Revelation 5:12 (ESV)
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!”
Revelation 7:12 (ESV)
saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
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