Bible Verses about “wisdom and knowledge”
The Bible contains 30 verses about wisdom and knowledge across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”
“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”
“Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”
“¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
“For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.”
“And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;”
“If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;”
“Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.”
“Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;”
“So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;”
“He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.”
“¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;”
“The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do [his commandments]: his praise endureth for ever.”
“Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:”
“Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.”
“Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.”
“He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.”
“¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;”
“To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;”
“To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;”
“For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.”
“None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.”
“That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.”
“For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.”
“But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.”
“Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;”
“Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;”
“Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:”
“For wisdom [is] a defence, [and] money [is] a defence: but the excellency of knowledge [is, that] wisdom giveth life to them that have it.”