50 Bible Verses about Education

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Proverbs 17:16

What is this? A fool has enough money to buy wisdom, but is senseless?

Ecclesiastes 12:12

So learn from them, my son. There is no end to the crafting of many books, and too much study wearies the body.

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction, do not let it go! Guard wisdom, because she is your life!

Daniel 1:17

As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge, aptitude for learning, and wisdom. Daniel also could understand all kinds of visions and dreams.

Psalm 119:99

I am more insightful than my teachers, because your decrees are my meditations.

Isaiah 29:12

Or when they give the book to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please,' he answers, "I don't know how to read.'"

1 Corinthians 3:19

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"

John 7:15

The Jewish leaders were astonished and remarked, "How can this man be so educated when he has never gone to school?"

Acts 22:3

"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia but raised in this city and educated at the feet of Gamaliel in the strict ways of our ancestral Law. I am as zealous for God as all of you are today.

Acts 26:24

As he continued his defense, Festus shouted, "You're out of your mind, Paul! Too much education is driving you crazy!"

Proverbs 9:9

Counsel a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will add to his learning.

Matthew 22:41

While the Pharisees were still gathered, Jesus asked them,

Daniel 1:5

The king assigned them fine food and choice wine on a daily basis, ordering them to be trained for three years, at the end of which time they would enter the king's service.

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is of utmost importance, therefore get wisdom, and with all your effort work to acquire understanding.

Galatians 1:12

For I did not receive it from a man, nor was I taught it, but it was revealed to me by Jesus the Messiah.

Proverbs 3:14

because her profit is better than the profit of silver, and her yield than fine gold.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I considered and observed on earth the following: The race doesn't go to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor food to the wise, nor wealth to the smart, nor recognition to the skilled. Instead, timing and circumstances meet them all.

Daniel 1:4

They were to be young men without physical defect, handsome in appearance, skilled in all wisdom, quick to learn, prudent in how they used knowledge, and capable of serving in the king's palace. They were to learn the literature and language of the Chaldeans.

Proverbs 18:2

A fool finds no satisfaction in trying to understand, for he would rather express his own opinion.

Amos 7:15

But the LORD took me from tending the flock and the LORD kept saying to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

John 18:19

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.

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