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Wisdom / Understanding / Stupidity
A fool finds no pleasure in understanding - Proverbs 18:2
A wise man fears the LORD - Proverbs 14:16
Be careful how you live - not as unwise but as wise - Ephesians 5:15
Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders - Colossians 4:5
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom - Proverbs 9:10
Fear of the LORD teaches a man wisdom - Proverbs 15:33
God can do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine - Ephesians 3:20
God has hidden things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children - Matthew 11:25
God's thoughts are not our thoughts, nor our ways his ways - Isaiah 55:8
Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - 2 Peter 3:18
If it is the Lord's will - Life is a mist - James 4:13, 14, 15
Insight comes from mediating on God's statutes - Psalms 119:99
Obedience shows your wisdom - Deuteronomy 4:6
Pray for wisdom - James 1:5
Price of wisdom is beyond rubies - Job 28:18
Simple gain wisdom - Proverbs 21:11
Simple man believes anything - Proverbs 14:15
Test everything - 1 Thessalonians 5:21
The statutes of the LORD make the simple wise - Psalms 19:7
The wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight - 1 Corinthians 3:19
Understanding comes from obeying God's precepts - Psalms 119:100
Wisdom from heaven is pure - James 3:17
Wisdom gives patience - Proverbs 19:11
Wisdom is more precious than rubies - Proverbs 8:11
Wisdom is peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere - James 3:17
Wisdom is supreme, cost all you have - Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom much better than gold - Proverbs 16:16
Wisdom shown in life and with humility - James 3:13, 14, 15
Wise in heart accept commands - Proverbs 10:8
Wise men turn away anger - Proverbs 29:8
With humility comes wisdom - Proverbs 11:2
With much wisdom comes much sorrow - Ecclesiastes 1:18
World through its wisdom did not know God - 1 Corinthians 1:21
Your faith should not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power - 1 Corinthians 2:5
Instances of
God gave wisdom to some skilled men - Exodus 28:3
Paul to Felix - "What I am saying is true and reasonable" - Acts 26:25
Solomon - asked for wisdom and God gave more than any human - 1 Kings 3:11, 12
Instances of Stupidity
Jacob to sons on getting food - "Why do you just keep looking at each other?" - Genesis 42:1
