Topic

Knowledge

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Proverbs 1:7

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 2:6

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Proverbs 9:10

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Psalms 119:66

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Psalms 19:2

Day after day they pour out speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

Proverbs 24:14

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Romans 11:33

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

Proverbs 2:10

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Proverbs 24:5

A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

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;

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

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.

Proverbs 1:5

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

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.

Proverbs 2:1–22

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; — read the full passage →

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

1 Corinthians 12:8

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

Colossians 2:1–23

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Proverbs 20:15

There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Isaiah 11:2

The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

1 Peter 3:7

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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,

Proverbs 11:9

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

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!

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 15:34

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Proverbs 8:10

Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 2:3

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

2 Peter 1:3

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

Hosea 4:6–7

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children. — read the full passage →

Psalms 19:1–2

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 1:29

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

Proverbs 3:1–35

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Job 28:28

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

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.

Colossians 3:9–10

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

2 Peter 1:5–7

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

Romans 3:20

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 1:1–7:27

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

Ephesians 1:2

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 3:16–17

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 1:5–7

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

Colossians 2:3

in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

Proverbs 3:7

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

Colossians 2:2–3

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, — read the full passage →

Daniel 2:21

He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

Genesis 2:17

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Colossians 2:8

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

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 your great people?”

Proverbs 9:10–12

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Proverbs 18:2

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Romans 11:2

God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

Isaiah 40:28

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased.”

Psalms 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Proverbs 14:29

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

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.

Colossians 3:2

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Proverbs 19:8

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Corinthians 13:2–3

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing. — read the full passage →

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.

Proverbs 19:2

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Proverbs 16:22

Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

John 8:32

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Job 12:12

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

Proverbs 1:1–33

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

Proverbs 13:10

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

1 Corinthians 1:25

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

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.

Proverbs 2:10–11

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

James 3:3

Indeed, we put bits into the horses’ mouths so that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

2 Peter 1:5

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Genesis 4:1

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Romans 1:25–28

who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

Isaiah 11:9

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Philippians 3:8

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

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