Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
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Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
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Deuteronomy 4:4
But you who were faithful to Yahweh your God are all alive today.
Deuteronomy 10:20
You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.
Psalms 119:31
I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.
Psalms 119:115
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
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Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
1 Kings 3:10
This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
1 Kings 3:11
God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice,
1 Kings 3:12
behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.
Job 28:28
To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
Psalms 111:10
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Psalms 119:27
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
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.”
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.
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.
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
Deuteronomy 21:20
They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
Deuteronomy 21:21
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.
Proverbs 19:26
He who robs his father and drives away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 28:14
Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
Proverbs 30:11
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
Proverbs 30:17
“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
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Psalms 119:48
I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.
Psalms 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
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.
Psalms 119:101
I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Psalms 119:102
I have not turned away from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
Psalms 119:104
Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.
2 Timothy 3:15
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:17
that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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Psalms 119:103
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 10:14
Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.
Luke 8:8
Other fell into the good ground and grew and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
Luke 8:9
Then his disciples asked him, “What does this parable mean?”
Luke 8:10
He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest it is given in parables, that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’
Luke 10:39
She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard his word.
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
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 6:20
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
2 Timothy 3:14
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
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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 1:23
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Proverbs 3:3
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 3:21
My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,
Proverbs 6:22
When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Proverbs 23:9
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Proverbs 24:4
by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.
Luke 9:44
“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”
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Proverbs 3:2
for they will add to you length of days, years of life, and peace.
Proverbs 3:4
So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:16
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
Proverbs 3:19
By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:8
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
Proverbs 8:5
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
Proverbs 19:8
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.
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Proverbs 23:8
You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
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Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),
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Ecclesiastes 8:17
then I saw all the work of God, that man can’t find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won’t find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won’t be able to find it.
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Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
Jeremiah 5:1
“Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in its wide places, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who does justly, who seeks truth, then I will pardon her.
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Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Matthew 6:20
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;
Matthew 6:21
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Luke 12:33
Sell what you have and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
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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.
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Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.
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Matthew 19:22
But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.
Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
John 15:3
You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Acts 3:6
But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
Philippians 1:3
I thank my God whenever I remember you,
Hebrews 11:26
considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
1 John 2:24
Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
2 John 1:2
for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:
3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
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Matthew 19:29
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Luke 18:28
Peter said, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.”
Luke 18:29
He said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for God’s Kingdom’s sake,
Luke 18:30
who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.”
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Job 28:12
“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:14
The deep says, ‘It isn’t in me.’ The sea says, ‘It isn’t with me.’
Psalms 119:14
I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 8:11
For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.
Proverbs 10:20
The tongue of the righteous is like choice silver. The heart of the wicked is of little worth.
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.
Matthew 16:26
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
Luke 11:28
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
Acts 2:42
They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
Philippians 3:9
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
Revelation 3:10
Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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Luke 15:12
The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ So he divided his livelihood between them.
Luke 15:13
Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.
Luke 15:14
When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.
Luke 15:15
He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.
Luke 15:16
He wanted to fill his belly with the pods that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.
Luke 15:30
But when this your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’
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John 14:21
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
John 14:22
Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, what has happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the world?”
John 14:23
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 14:24
He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
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John 18:37
Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
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John 18:38
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
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Acts 2:45
They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
Acts 4:34
For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
Acts 4:35
and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.
Acts 4:36
Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,
Acts 4:37
having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
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1 Corinthians 15:2
by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:11
Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
1 Corinthians 15:12
Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
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Galatians 1:6
I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,
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Galatians 1:7
but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.
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1 Kings 3:6
Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.
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.
Colossians 1:9
For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
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 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.
Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
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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Job 2:3
Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
Job 27:6
I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Galatians 5:1
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
Hebrews 10:35
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
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1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
Hebrews 10:37
“In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.
Jude 1:20
But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
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