Wise

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

Those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the expanse; and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever.

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. — read the full passage →

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

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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 →

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

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’ — read the full passage →

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm. — read the full passage →

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble; — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

If you love me, keep my commandments. — read the full passage →

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. — read the full passage →

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. — read the full passage →

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. — read the full passage →

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. — read the full passage →

“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. — read the full passage →

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe. — read the full passage →

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways. — read the full passage →

A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied. — read the full passage →

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. — read the full passage →

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken. — read the full passage →

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes. — read the full passage →

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. — read the full passage →

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. — read the full passage →

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants; — read the full passage →

Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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 →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my loving kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you. — read the full passage →

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is none like me; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. — read the full passage →

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. — read the full passage →

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. — read the full passage →

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. — read the full passage →

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!” But the other said, “It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it.” — read the full passage →

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and an understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, neither after you shall any arise like you. — read the full passage →

Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?” — read the full passage →

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. — read the full passage →

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.

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.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. — read the full passage →

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” — read the full passage →

and having a great priest over God’s house, — read the full passage →

Pray without ceasing. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.” — read the full passage →

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” — read the full passage →

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’ — read the full passage →

Jesus answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand. — read the full passage →

Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”

You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone. — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, — read the full passage →