Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
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Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
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Numbers 24:15
He took up his parable, and said, “Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eyes are open says;
Numbers 24:16
he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:
1 Corinthians 14:12
So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
1 Peter 4:4
They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you.
2 Peter 2:15
Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
2 Peter 2:16
but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
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Judges 16:17
He told her all his heart and said to her, “No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me and I will become weak, and be like any other man.”
Micah 7:5
Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
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1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
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2 Chronicles 15:2
He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
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Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Psalms 1:1
Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.
Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 19:8
Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 19:10
They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Psalms 104:34
Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh.
Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
Psalms 119:111
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
Psalms 119:162
I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great plunder.
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Proverbs 24:13
My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
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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Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
Proverbs 6:32
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
Isaiah 32:6
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Matthew 15:16
So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?
Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Romans 1:23
and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, four-footed animals, and creeping things.
Romans 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;
Romans 1:25
who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 1:26
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
Romans 1:27
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.
Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
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Psalms 92:4
For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.
Psalms 111:2
Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
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Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
Proverbs 10:32
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
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Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
Proverbs 1:30
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 5:12
and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Proverbs 5:13
I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
Proverbs 15:5
A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
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Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 18:9
One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.
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Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.
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Proverbs 18:20
A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
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Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
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Psalms 25:12
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
Psalms 25:13
His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.
Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Proverbs 15:24
The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 20:19
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
Isaiah 35:8
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.
Micah 2:7
Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”
Matthew 13:11
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
1 Corinthians 2:14
Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is to be judged by no one.
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
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Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:5
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 23:5
But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,
Luke 6:45
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
John 7:4
For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”
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Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Psalms 119:99
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Matthew 8:34
Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
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Proverbs 21:1
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
Matthew 13:12
For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
John 6:45
It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.
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.
Ephesians 5:32
This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the assembly.
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Romans 9:31
but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
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Romans 9:32
Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
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Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Isaiah 8:20
Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
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?
Matthew 6:22
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Matthew 11:25
At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
Matthew 11:27
All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 8:2
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
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2 Peter 3:3
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts
2 Peter 3:4
and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”
2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,
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