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.
“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.”
“Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.”
“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.”
“who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.”
“The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.”
“For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.”
“The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.”
“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.”
“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;”
“He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;”
“My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;”
“The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!”
“Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,”
“Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.”
“who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:”
“that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.”
“For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.”
“to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;”
“To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;”
“for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.”
“None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:”
“that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.”
“For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.”
“But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.”
“who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;”
“who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;”
“who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:”
“For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.”