Proverbs 1:5 A
wise [
man] will hear, and will increase learning; and
a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [
it] not;
neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [
therefore] get wisdom: and
with all thy getting
get understanding.
Proverbs 9:9 Give [
instruction] to a wise [
man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [
man], and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 10:14 Wise [
men]
lay up knowledge: but
the mouth of the foolish [
is] near destruction.
Proverbs 15:14 The
heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but
the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and
sell [
it] not; [
also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
1 Kings 3:9 Give therefore thy servant an
understanding heart
to judge thy people, that I may
discern between good and bad: for
who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Psalms 119:97-
104 MEM.
O how love I thy law! it [
is] my meditation all the day. ...
Through thy precepts I get understanding:
therefore I hate every
false way.
Luke 8:8-
10 And
other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit
an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried,
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. ... And he said,
Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables;
that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Luke 10:39 And she had a sister called Mary,
which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
2 Timothy 3:15-
17 And that
from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. ... That
the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto all good works.
James 1:5 If
any of you lack wisdom,
let him ask of God, that giveth to all [
men] liberally,
and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
