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James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
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2 Samuel 14 17
Then your servant said,‘ Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’”
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Proverbs 2:3-9
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
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John 5:30
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
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Psalms 72:1-2
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
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Isaiah 11:2-4
Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
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Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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1 Chronicles 22 12
May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
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2 Corinthians 3 5
not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
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2 Chronicles 1 10
Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
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Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
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Psalms 119:144
Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.
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Ephesians 5:17
Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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Exodus 4:10-13
Moses said to Yahweh,“ O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”Yahweh said to him,“ Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”Moses said,“ Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”
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Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
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Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
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Ecclesiastes 9:15-18
Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.Then I said,“ Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
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Jeremiah 1:6
Then I said,“ Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”
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Proverbs 3:13-18
Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
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Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
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James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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Exodus 3:11-12
Moses said to God,“ Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”He said,“ Certainly I will be with you. This will be the token to you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
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Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
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1 Corinthians 2 14-1 Corinthians 2 15
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.
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Matthew 3:14
But John would have hindered him, saying,“ I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”
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1 Kings 3 28
All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
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Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
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2 Corinthians 2 16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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1 Chronicles 29 19
and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.”
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Philippians 1:10
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
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Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.