1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
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1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
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Genesis 2:9
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:5
For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
1 Kings 22:6
So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
Job 28:23
God has knowledge of the way to it, and of its resting-place;
Psalms 25:14
The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
Proverbs 3:7
Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
Isaiah 7:16
For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.
Romans 14:1
Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
1 John 4:1
My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.
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Genesis 26:28
And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;
Joshua 1:5
While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up.
Joshua 1:17
As we gave attention to Moses in all things, so we will give attention to you: and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses.
1 Samuel 20:13
May the Lord's punishment be on Jonathan, if it is my father's pleasure to do you evil and I do not give you word of it and send you away so that you may go in peace: and may the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.
1 Kings 1:37
As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon and make the seat of his authority greater than that of my lord King David.
1 Chronicles 28:20
And David said to his son Solomon, Be strong and of a good heart and do your work; have no fear and do not be troubled, for the Lord God, my God, is with you; he will not give you up, and his face will not be turned away from you, till all the work necessary for the house of the Lord is complete.
2 Chronicles 1:1
And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.
Psalms 46:7
The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
Psalms 46:11
The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
Isaiah 8:10
Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.
Matthew 1:23
See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
Romans 8:31
What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
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Genesis 41:38
Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?
Genesis 41:39
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:
Exodus 35:31
And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;
Exodus 36:2
Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:
Deuteronomy 34:9
And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had put his hands on him: and the children of Israel gave ear to him, and did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Isaiah 28:6
And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.
Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.
John 3:34
For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.
1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:5
And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord.
1 Corinthians 12:6
And there are different operations, but the same God, who is working all things in all.
1 Corinthians 12:7
But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.
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Genesis 42:23
They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.
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Exodus 2:14
And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.
Exodus 6:12
And Moses, answering the Lord, said, See, the children of Israel will not give ear to me; how then will Pharaoh give ear to me, whose lips are unclean?
Acts 7:23
But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.
Acts 7:24
And seeing one of them being attacked, he went to his help and gave the Egyptian a death-blow:
Acts 7:25
And he was hoping that his brothers would see that God had sent him to be their saviour; but they did not see.
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Exodus 8:24
And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.
Exodus 18:13
Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.
Exodus 18:14
And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?
Exodus 18:15
And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:
Exodus 18:21
But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;
Exodus 18:22
And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.
Exodus 18:25
And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.
Numbers 11:11
And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?
Numbers 11:12
Am I the father of all this people? have I given them birth, that you say to me, Take them in your arms, like a child at the breast, to the land which you gave by an oath to their fathers?
Numbers 11:13
Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.
Numbers 11:14
I am not able by myself to take the weight of all this people, for it is more than my strength.
Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
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Exodus 28:29
And so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel on the priest's bag over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep the memory of them before the Lord.
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Leviticus 27:12
And let the priest put a value on it, if it is good or bad; whatever value the priest puts on it, so will it be.
Isaiah 59:2
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
Ezekiel 44:23
And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.
Jonah 4:11
And am I not to have mercy on Nineveh, that great town, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons without the power of judging between right and left, as well as much cattle?
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Numbers 20:20
But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army.
2 Kings 6:14
So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.
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Deuteronomy 1:9
At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;
Deuteronomy 1:12
How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?
Deuteronomy 16:18
You are to make judges and overseers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, for every tribe: and they are to be upright men, judging the people in righteousness.
Proverbs 25:2
It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.
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Judges 6:14
And the Lord, turning to him, said, Go in the strength you have and be Israel's saviour from Midian: have I not sent you?
Judges 6:15
And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
1 Samuel 10:20
So Samuel made all the tribes of Israel come near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
1 Samuel 10:21
Then he made the tribe of Benjamin come near by families, and the family of the Matrites was taken: and from them, Saul, the son of Kish, was taken: but when they went in search of him he was nowhere to be seen.
1 Samuel 10:22
So they put another question to the Lord, Is the man present here? And the answer of the Lord was, He is keeping himself from view among the goods.
1 Samuel 10:23
So they went quickly and made him come out; and when he took his place among the people, he was taller by a head than any of the people.
1 Samuel 10:24
And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see the man of the Lord's selection, how there is no other like him among all the people? And all the people with loud cries said, Long life to the king!
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Judges 11:11
So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.
1 Samuel 23:9
And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod.
1 Samuel 23:10
Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me.
1 Samuel 23:11
And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down.
1 Samuel 23:12
Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.
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1 Samuel 3:1
Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.
1 Samuel 3:21
And the Lord was seen again in Shiloh; for the Lord gave to Samuel in Shiloh the revelation of his word.
1 Samuel 16:11
Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here.
1 Samuel 16:12
So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.
1 Kings 18:12
And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.
2 Chronicles 24:1
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
2 Chronicles 34:3
In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.
Psalms 89:19
Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.
Proverbs 8:17
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
Matthew 20:2
And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
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2 Samuel 15:5
And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.
2 Samuel 15:6
And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
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1 Kings 3:17
And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.
1 Kings 19:21
And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.
2 Chronicles 32:4
So they got together a great number of people, and had all the water-springs and the stream flowing through the land stopped up, saying, Why let the kings of Assyria come and have much water?
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1 Kings 12:6
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?
1 Kings 12:8
But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:
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2 Kings 7:6
For the Lord had made the sound of carriages and horses, and the noise of a great army, come to the ears of the Aramaeans, so that they said to one another, Truly, the king of Israel has got the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians for a price to make an attack on us.
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2 Kings 19:23
You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods; I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
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1 Chronicles 3:14
Amon his son, Josiah his son.
1 Chronicles 3:15
And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.
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1 Chronicles 14:4
These are the names of the children he had in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab, Nathan and Solomon
1 Chronicles 22:9
But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet;
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2 Samuel 12:24
And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.
2 Samuel 12:25
And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.
1 Kings 1:13
Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?
1 Kings 1:17
And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.
1 Kings 2:15
And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.
1 Kings 2:26
And to Abiathar the priest the king said, Go to Anathoth, to your fields; for death would be your right reward; but I will not put you to death now, because you took up the ark of the Lord God before David my father, and you were with him in all his troubles.
1 Kings 3:3
And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.
1 Chronicles 22:10
He will be the builder of a house for my name; he will be to me a son, and I will be to him a father; and I will make the seat of his rule over Israel certain for ever.
1 Chronicles 22:11
Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.
1 Chronicles 28:5
And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
1 Chronicles 28:6
And he said to me, Solomon your son will be the builder of my house and the open spaces round it; for I have taken him to be my son, and I will be his father.
Matthew 1:6
And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;
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1 Kings 4:34
People came from every nation to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had word of his wisdom.
1 Kings 5:9
My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.
1 Kings 10:2
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels weighted down with spices, and stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.
1 Kings 10:4
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,
1 Kings 10:7
But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and now I see that it was not half the story; your wisdom and your wealth are much greater than they said.
2 Chronicles 1:9
Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.
2 Chronicles 1:11
And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:
2 Chronicles 1:13
So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.
2 Chronicles 2:11
Then Huram, king of Tyre, sent Solomon an answer in writing, saying, Because of his love for his people the Lord has made you king over them.
2 Chronicles 2:12
And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.
Ecclesiastes 1:12
I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Matthew 12:42
The queen of the South will come up in the day of judging and give her decision against this generation: for she came from the ends of the earth to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon; and now a greater than Solomon is here.
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2 Chronicles 26:1
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Ecclesiastes 4:13
A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
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2 Chronicles 36:2
Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.
2 Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years.
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Psalms 25:4
Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.
Psalms 25:5
Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
Psalms 27:4
One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.
Psalms 51:6
Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
Psalms 101:2
I will do wisely in the way of righteousness: O when will you come to me? I will be walking in my house with a true heart.
Psalms 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
Psalms 119:125
I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.
Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
Romans 16:19
For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.
James 3:13
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
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2 Samuel 8:15
And David was king over all Israel, judging and giving right decisions for all his people.
1 Kings 14:7
Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,
Psalms 45:6
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
Psalms 72:3
May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.
Psalms 72:4
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
Proverbs 20:8
A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.
Proverbs 28:2
Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.
Isaiah 1:26
And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.
Isaiah 11:5
And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.
Isaiah 16:5
Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.
Isaiah 32:2
And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.
John 5:30
Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
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2 Samuel 5:2
In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.
1 Kings 7:7
Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.
1 Kings 8:5
And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there, were with him before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.
1 Kings 10:9
May the Lord your God be praised, whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; because the Lord's love for Israel is eternal, he has made you king, to be their judge in righteousness.
1 Chronicles 11:2
In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.
Psalms 45:7
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
Psalms 67:4
O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)
Psalms 72:12
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
Psalms 72:13
He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.
Psalms 72:14
He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes.
Psalms 72:20
The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. A Psalm. Of Asaph.
Psalms 99:4
The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
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Psalms 78:72
So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.
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1 Chronicles 4:10
And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.
Job 22:27
You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.
Job 22:28
Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.
Psalms 21:4
He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.
Psalms 65:2
To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.
Psalms 66:19
But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.
Psalms 66:20
Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.
Psalms 116:1
I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.
Psalms 116:2
He has let my request come before him, and I will make my prayer to him all my days.
Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
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Psalms 119:27
Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.
Proverbs 14:10
No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.
Proverbs 30:7
I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:
Isaiah 54:13
And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
John 6:45
The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:
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Job 6:30
Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
Psalms 119:98
Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.
Psalms 119:99
I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.
Psalms 119:102
My heart has not been turned away from your decisions; for you have been my teacher.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Psalms 119:104
Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
Proverbs 10:14
Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
Proverbs 18:1
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.
Luke 8:10
And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.
Luke 10:39
And she had a sister, by name Mary, who took her seat at the Lord's feet and gave attention to his words.
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Proverbs 1:4
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
Proverbs 2:2
So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
Proverbs 28:26
He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.
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1 Kings 8:53
For you made them separate from all the peoples of the earth, to be your heritage, as you said by Moses your servant, when you took our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.
Psalms 2:10
So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth.
Psalms 148:11
Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth:
Proverbs 8:15
Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions.
Proverbs 8:16
Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.
Daniel 9:12
And he has given effect to his words which he said against us and against those who were our judges, by sending a great evil on us: for under all heaven there has not been done what has been done to Jerusalem.
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Proverbs 10:1
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.
Proverbs 13:1
A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.
Proverbs 23:24
The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
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Proverbs 21:28
A false witness will be cut off, ...
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1 Samuel 2:30
For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
Proverbs 1:3
To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
Proverbs 1:6
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
Proverbs 2:8
He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
Proverbs 3:35
The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.
Proverbs 4:6
Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
Proverbs 4:8
Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.
Proverbs 7:4
Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
Proverbs 8:5
Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.
Proverbs 17:16
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?
Proverbs 22:4
The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.
Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.
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Ecclesiastes 10:16
Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.
Isaiah 3:4
And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.
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Proverbs 16:10
Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.
Isaiah 2:4
And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
Isaiah 32:17
And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.
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Isaiah 10:2
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
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Ezra 7:25
And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.
Proverbs 3:19
The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
Daniel 2:47
And the king made answer to Daniel and said, Truly, your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings, and an unveiler of secrets, for you have been able to make this secret clear.
Matthew 10:16
See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.
Luke 16:8
And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
Romans 10:10
For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
1 Corinthians 2:6
But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
1 Corinthians 2:13
And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 3:10
In the measure of the grace given to me, I, as a wise master-builder, have put the base in position, and another goes on building on it. But let every man take care what he puts on it.
James 3:18
And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
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Hosea 9:17
My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.
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Zechariah 11:15
And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.
Zechariah 11:16
For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.
Zechariah 11:17
A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.
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Matthew 3:14
But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?
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Matthew 20:21
And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.
Matthew 20:22
But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?
Mark 10:36
And he said to them, What would you have me do for you?
Mark 10:51
And Jesus said to him, What would you have me do to you? And the blind man said, Master, make me able to see.
Luke 18:41
What would you have me do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may be able to see again.
Romans 8:25
But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
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Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear and the seeing eye are equally the Lord's work.
Luke 8:8
And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.
Luke 8:9
And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.
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John 14:12
Truly I say to you, He who puts his faith in me will do the very works which I do, and he will do greater things than these, because I am going to my Father.
John 14:13
And whatever request you make in my name, that I will do, so that the Father may have glory in the Son.
John 14:14
If you make any request to me in my name, I will do it.
John 15:7
If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.
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1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.
1 Kings 8:32
Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.
Psalms 7:8
The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.
John 7:24
Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.
John 8:15
You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.
John 8:16
Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.
1 Corinthians 4:3
But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.
1 Corinthians 4:5
For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.
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Exodus 31:6
And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;
Numbers 11:25
Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time.
2 Samuel 7:18
Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?
1 Kings 7:14
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.
2 Kings 2:15
And when the sons of the prophets who were facing him at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha. And they came out to him, and went down on the earth before him.
Isaiah 28:26
For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.
Matthew 3:11
Truly, I give baptism with water to those of you whose hearts are changed; but he who comes after me is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to take up: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit and with fire:
John 16:7
But what I am saying is true: my going is for your good: for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.
1 Corinthians 12:9
To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;
1 Corinthians 12:10
And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:11
But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.
1 Corinthians 12:31
But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way.
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Deuteronomy 4:5
I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God, so that you might keep them in the land to which you are going to take it for your heritage.
1 Samuel 8:5
And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.
Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
Philippians 4:6
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Peter 4:2
So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.
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Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
1 Timothy 6:18
And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;
1 Timothy 6:19
Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
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Job 12:17
He takes away the wisdom of the wise guides, and makes judges foolish;
Job 28:20
From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge?
Psalms 119:144
The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.
Psalms 119:169
TAU Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.
Ecclesiastes 7:24
Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
Matthew 7:24
Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;
Matthew 24:45
Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?
1 Corinthians 1:19
As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.
1 Corinthians 1:24
But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
1 Corinthians 14:20
My brothers, do not be children in mind: in evil be as little children, but in mind be of full growth.
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
2 Peter 3:18
But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
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