Seeking Knowledge

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ, — read the full passage →

Because of this, we also, from the day in which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

and the truth shall make you free.'

and of Him ye--ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

`I am the good shepherd, and I know my <FI>sheep<Fi> , and am known by mine,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them, — read the full passage →

in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one; — read the full passage →

`Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

`All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal <FI>Him<Fi> .