Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
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Ecclesiastes 8:5
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
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Genesis 49:14
“Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the saddlebags.
Genesis 49:15
He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.
2 Kings 5:26
He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
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.
2 Chronicles 33:12
When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Proverbs 15:23
Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!
Proverbs 16:23
The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
Ecclesiastes 3:12
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.
Ecclesiastes 3:13
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Matthew 16:3
In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!
Luke 12:56
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?
Luke 12:57
“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
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Exodus 1:17
But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
Exodus 1:20
God dealt well with the midwives, and the people multiplied, and grew very mighty.
Exodus 1:21
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.
Luke 20:25
He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”
Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, judge for yourselves,
Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
1 Peter 3:13
Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
1 Peter 3:14
But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
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Exodus 14:31
Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.
1 Samuel 24:6
He said to his men, “Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, Yahweh’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is Yahweh’s anointed.”
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Exodus 15:26
He said, “If you will diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, and will do that which is right in his eyes, and will pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh who heals you.”
Leviticus 14:57
to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean. This is the law of leprosy.
Deuteronomy 4:9
Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—
Deuteronomy 24:8
Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Psalms 78:5
For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
Psalms 119:96
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.
Ezekiel 44:23
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
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Numbers 27:5
Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
2 Samuel 14:17
Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”
1 Kings 3:9
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
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.
Psalms 25:14
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
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.
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.
Ephesians 4:13
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
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Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who does presumptuously in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
Jeremiah 27:17
Don’t listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and live. Why should this city become a desolation?
Matthew 23:2
saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.
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Deuteronomy 21:17
but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
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Joshua 24:31
Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
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2 Samuel 20:19
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
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.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure 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.
Romans 12:18
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
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 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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1 Kings 2:44
The king said moreover to Shimei, “You know in your heart all the wickedness that you did to David my father. Therefore Yahweh will return your wickedness on your own head.
Ecclesiastes 7:22
for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
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1 Chronicles 29:23
Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
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1 Kings 10:9
Blessed is Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of Israel. Because Yahweh loved Israel forever, therefore he made you king, to do justice and righteousness.”
2 Chronicles 19:6
and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
Psalms 82:2
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah.
Psalms 82:3
“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
Psalms 82:4
Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”
Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
Proverbs 31:9
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow.”
Jeremiah 5:28
They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excel in deeds of wickedness. They don’t plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don’t defend the rights of the needy.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
Micah 3:1
I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
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Psalms 103:18
to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.
Psalms 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
Psalms 119:146
I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.
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.
Luke 10:28
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
John 14:15
If you love me, keep my commandments.
John 15:11
I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
John 15:12
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Romans 8:28
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
Revelation 22:14
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
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Psalms 16:11
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
Psalms 105:45
that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
Psalms 106:3
Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.
Psalms 119:4
You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
Psalms 119:6
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, don’t forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
Proverbs 8:32
“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
Jeremiah 7:23
but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
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 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
John 15:14
You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
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Psalms 112:5
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;
Proverbs 6:7
which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
Proverbs 6:8
provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
Proverbs 6:9
How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
Proverbs 6:10
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
Proverbs 6:11
so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.
Proverbs 13:23
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
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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.
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.
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Ecclesiastes 2:12
I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.
Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
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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Isaiah 9:8
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it falls on Israel.
Ezekiel 25:14
I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath. Then they will know my vengeance,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
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Esther 7:6
Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Micah 3:2
You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
Micah 3:3
who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Micah 3:4
Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
Micah 3:9
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity,
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Matthew 23:3
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Luke 19:42
saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
Luke 19:43
For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
1 Peter 2:12
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.
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Psalms 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Ecclesiastes 7:16
Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
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.
Jeremiah 8:8
“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.
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?
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
Romans 12:11
not lagging in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,
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?
Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
Colossians 4:5
Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
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Proverbs 28:7
Whoever keeps the law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.
1 John 2:5
But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
1 John 3:22
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
Revelation 12:17
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.”
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1 Corinthians 11:24
When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”
1 Corinthians 11:27
Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:29
For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself if he doesn’t discern the Lord’s body.
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Ephesians 6:7
with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,
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Ephesians 6:8
knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.
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Jeremiah 9:12
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Ephesians 6:13
Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
James 3:1
Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
Revelation 22:20
He who testifies these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.” Amen! Yes, come, Lord Jesus!
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Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Philippians 1:9
This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
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 5:21
Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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