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Matthew 10:16
“ Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves.
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1 Corinthians 14 20
Brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your thinking, but be infants in regard to evil and adult in your thinking.
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Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because the news of your faith is being reported in all the world.
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Philippians 1:9
And I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment,
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James 3:13-18
Who among you is wise and understanding? By his good conduct he should show that his works are done in the gentleness that comes from wisdom.But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without pretense.And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace.
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Philippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world,
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Jeremiah 4:22
“ For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.”
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2 Timothy 3 15-2 Timothy 3 17
and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
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Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell richly among you, in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another through psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
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Psalms 101:2
I will pay attention to the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.
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Ephesians 5:17
So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
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1 Thessalonians 3 6-1 Thessalonians 3 10
But now Timothy has come to us from you and brought us good news about your faith and love. He reported that you always have good memories of us and that you long to see us, as we also long to see you.Therefore, brothers and sisters, in all our distress and affliction, we were encouraged about you through your faith.For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.How can we thank God for you in return for all the joy we experience before our God because of you,as we pray very earnestly night and day to see you face to face and to complete what is lacking in your faith?
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Ephesians 1:15-18
This is why, since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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Luke 10:3
Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.
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Isaiah 11:2-3
The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— a Spirit of wisdom and understanding, a Spirit of counsel and strength, a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, he will not execute justice by what he hears with his ears,
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1 Kings 3 9-1 Kings 3 12
So give your servant a receptive heart to judge your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours?”Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had requested this.So God said to him,“ Because you have requested this and did not ask for long life or riches for yourself, or the death of your enemies, but you asked discernment for yourself to administer justice,I will therefore do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you before and never will be again.
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1 Thessalonians 1 8-1 Thessalonians 1 9
For the word of the Lord rang out from you, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place that your faith in God has gone out. Therefore, we don’t need to say anything,for they themselves report what kind of reception we had from you: how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
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1 Thessalonians 1 2-1 Thessalonians 1 3
We always thank God for all of you, making mention of you constantly in our prayers.We recall, in the presence of our God and Father, your work produced by faith, your labor motivated by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Colossians 1:3-9
We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saintsbecause of the hope reserved for you in heaven. You have already heard about this hope in the word of truth, the gospelthat has come to you. It is bearing fruit and growing all over the world, just as it has among you since the day you heard it and came to truly appreciate God’s grace.You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf,and he has told us about your love in the Spirit.For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
