Proverbs 23:23
Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
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Proverbs 23:23
Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
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Deuteronomy 4:4
But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.
Deuteronomy 10:20
Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.
Psalms 119:31
I have been true to your unchanging word; O Lord, do not put me to shame.
Psalms 119:115
Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.
1 Kings 3:10
Now these words and Solomon's request were pleasing to the Lord.
1 Kings 3:11
And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;
1 Kings 3:12
I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.
Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
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 119:27
Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
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 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.
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.
Ephesians 5:17
For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.
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Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:
Deuteronomy 21:19
Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;
Deuteronomy 21:20
And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.
Deuteronomy 21:21
Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.
Proverbs 19:26
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
Proverbs 28:14
Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
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Psalms 119:48
And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
Psalms 119:97
MEM O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
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 119:100
I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.
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 119:104
Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
Proverbs 9:9
Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.
2 Timothy 3:15
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16
Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:
2 Timothy 3:17
So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
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Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
Proverbs 10:14
Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.
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.
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.
Romans 7:14
For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.
1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, take good care of that which is given to you, turning away from the wrong and foolish talk and arguments of that knowledge which is falsely so named;
2 Timothy 3:14
But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;
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Proverbs 1:22
How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23
Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
Proverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;
Proverbs 3:21
My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.
Proverbs 6:22
In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
Proverbs 6:23
For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Proverbs 23:9
Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
Proverbs 24:4
And by knowledge its rooms are full of all dear and pleasing things.
Luke 9:44
Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.
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Proverbs 3:2
For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.
Proverbs 3:4
So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.
Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.
Proverbs 3:19
The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.
Proverbs 4:4
And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
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 6:20
My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
Proverbs 6:21
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Proverbs 8:5
Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.
Proverbs 18:1
He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.
Proverbs 19:8
He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.
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Proverbs 23:8
The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
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Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
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Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Isaiah 59:14
And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.
Jeremiah 5:1
Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.
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Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
Matthew 6:20
But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:
Matthew 6:21
For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.
Luke 12:33
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
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Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
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Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.
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Matthew 19:22
But hearing these words the young man went away sorrowing: for he had much property.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
John 15:3
You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.
Acts 3:6
But Peter said, I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up on your feet.
Acts 20:23
Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.
2 Corinthians 6:10
As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.
Philippians 1:3
I give praise to my God at every memory of you,
Hebrews 11:26
Judging a part in the shame of Christ to be better than all the wealth of Egypt; for he was looking forward to his reward.
1 John 2:24
But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
2 John 1:2
Because of this true knowledge which is in us, and will be with us for ever:
3 John 1:3
For it gave me great joy when some of the brothers came and gave witness that you had the true faith and were walking in the true way.
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Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.
Luke 18:28
And Peter said, See, we have given up what is ours to come after you.
Luke 18:29
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,
Luke 18:30
Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.
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Job 28:12
But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?
Job 28:14
The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.
Psalms 119:14
I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
Proverbs 8:10
Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.
Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value.
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
Matthew 16:26
For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Luke 11:28
But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
Acts 2:42
And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.
Philippians 3:9
And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.
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Luke 15:12
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.
Luke 15:13
And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.
Luke 15:14
And when everything was gone, there was no food to be had in that country, and he was in need.
Luke 15:15
And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.
Luke 15:16
And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.
Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
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John 14:21
He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
John 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, How is it that you will let yourself be seen clearly by us and not by the world?
John 14:23
Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
John 14:24
He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.
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John 18:37
Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.
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John 18:38
Pilate said to him, True? what is true? Having said this he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I see no wrong in him.
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Acts 2:45
And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.
Acts 4:34
And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,
Acts 4:35
And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.
Acts 4:36
And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas (the sense of which is, Son of comfort), a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,
Acts 4:37
Having a field, got money for it and put the money at the feet of the Apostles.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.
1 Corinthians 15:11
If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.
1 Corinthians 15:12
Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?
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Galatians 1:6
I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;
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Galatians 1:7
Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.
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1 Kings 3:6
And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.
1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
Colossians 1:9
For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,
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.
Hebrews 12:14
Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;
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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Job 2:3
And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.
Job 27:6
I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.
1 Corinthians 15:58
For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
Galatians 5:1
Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
Ephesians 6:14
Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have made a good fight, I have come to the end of my journey, I have kept the faith:
Hebrews 10:35
So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded.
Hebrews 10:36
For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
Hebrews 10:38
But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 16:13
Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.
Hebrews 10:37
In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow.
Jude 1:20
But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,
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