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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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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Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Genesis 35:2
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.
Genesis 35:3
Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
Genesis 35:4
They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
Genesis 35:5
They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.
1 Samuel 7:2
From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
1 Samuel 7:3
Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
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1 Kings 11:1
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,
1 Kings 11:2
of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
1 Kings 11:3
He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away.
1 Kings 11:4
When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.
1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:6
Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.
1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
1 Kings 11:8
So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
1 Kings 11:9
Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
1 Kings 11:10
and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.
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2 Samuel 24:10
David’s heart struck him after he had counted the people. David said to Yahweh, “I have sinned greatly in that which I have done. But now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
Job 34:31
“For has any said to God, ‘I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
Job 34:32
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Psalms 73:22
I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Matthew 25:2
Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.
Luke 24:25
He said to them, “Foolish people, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?
Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
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1 Chronicles 12:32
Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
1 Chronicles 22:12
May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel, so that you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
2 Chronicles 1:11
God said to Solomon, “Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor yet have you asked for long life; but have asked for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king,
Psalms 101:2
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
1 John 2:3
This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
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Psalms 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
Psalms 119:19
I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
Psalms 119:130
The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.
Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 7:7
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
Proverbs 8:20
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.
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Proverbs 11:1
A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.
Proverbs 12:16
A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.
Proverbs 12:17
He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.
Proverbs 14:16
A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.
Proverbs 21:29
A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
Proverbs 26:24
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
1 Corinthians 6:5
I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
Hebrews 3:1
Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,
1 John 2:11
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
Proverbs 14:11
The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish.
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Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
Proverbs 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Ecclesiastes 10:3
Yes also when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says to everyone that he is a fool.
Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Acts 17:12
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
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Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 25:4
Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.
Psalms 119:73
Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.
Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Psalms 119:125
I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.
Proverbs 2:5
then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
Proverbs 8:14
Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
1 Corinthians 1:30
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
1 Corinthians 2:6
We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
Luke 14:29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
Luke 14:30
saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
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Psalms 72:1
God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
Psalms 72:2
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Proverbs 14:24
The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools crowns them with folly.
Proverbs 21:22
A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the strength of its confidence.
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Ecclesiastes 9:15
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.
Ecclesiastes 9:16
Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Ecclesiastes 9:17
The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
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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Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
Proverbs 20:24
A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10:7
However, he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
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Jeremiah 13:20
Lift up your eyes, and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your beautiful flock?
Luke 12:19
I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
Revelation 13:14
He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.
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Psalms 119:5
Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!
Psalms 119:18
Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Psalms 119:29
Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Psalms 119:35
Direct me in the path of your commandments, for I delight in them.
Proverbs 9:10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Acts 17:11
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
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Acts 25:11
For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Acts 26:32
Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
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Job 28:8
The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.
Psalms 5:2
Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.
Psalms 25:12
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 143:8
Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.
Jeremiah 4:22
“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
Matthew 7:24
“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
1 Corinthians 2:7
But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
Ephesians 1:17
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,
Colossians 2:3
in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.
1 Peter 4:2
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
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1 Corinthians 7:17
Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.
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