16 Bible Verses about Understanding God's Word

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

I am your servant. Give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things out of your law.

Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight; and you shall move from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

It happened, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.

Then he said to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words' sake.

I heard a man's voice between [the banks of] the Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

But, as it is written, "They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven't heard will understand."

which has come to you; even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,