Understanding

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

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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

So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; — read the full passage →

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

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

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. — read the full passage →

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.

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

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.

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

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

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

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,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

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.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, — read the full passage →

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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

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;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.

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, — read the full passage →

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 →

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!

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 →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

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

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

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

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. — read the full passage →

After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don’t know.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. — read the full passage →

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

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

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’

Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

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

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

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.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

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.

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

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

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

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

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

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

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: — read the full passage →

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. — read the full passage →