5 Bible Verses about Asking For Discernment

Teach me both knowledge and appropriate discretion, because I believe in your commands.

Help me understand how your precepts function, and I will meditate on your wondrous acts.

Since I am your servant, give me understanding, so I will know your decrees.

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to everyone generously without a rebuke, and it will be given to him.

so God told him: "Because you asked for this, and you didn't ask for a long life for yourself, and you didn't ask for the lives of your enemies, but instead you've asked for discernment so you can understand how to govern, look how I'm going to do precisely what you asked. I'm giving you a wise and discerning mind, so that there will have been no one like you before you and no one will arise after you like you.