Bible Verses about “understanding”
The Bible contains 36 verses about understanding across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”
“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.”
“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
“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.”
“that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”
“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”
“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”
“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”
“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”
“From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.”
“always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
“For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,”
“But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.”
“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.”
“A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.”
“Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.”
“But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
“But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.”
“But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,”
“persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.”
“Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.”
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.”
“She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.”
“He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.”
“Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.”
“She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.”
“He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.”
“For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.”
“The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.”
“If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:”
“then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.”
“Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.”
“Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;”
“So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;”
“Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.”