and don't pretend to say within your selves, We have Abraham for our father: for I tell you, that God is able out of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham:

Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;

Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?

and shall pretend to assault his fellow-servants, and spend his time with sots:

And five of them were prudent and five foolish.

but the prudent took oil in their vessels with their torches.

And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, for our torches are going out.

But the prudent answered saying, We cannot, lest it might not suffice for us and for you. Go rather to those that sell, and buy for yourselves.