94 Bible Verses about Understanding

Our Lord is great, and rich in power; his understanding has no limitation.

They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.

Then, with the eyes of your hearts enlightened, you will know the confidence that is produced by God having called you, the rich glory that is his inheritance among the saints,

Whoever ignores instruction hates himself, but anyone who heeds reproof gains understanding.

Wisdom characterizes the speech of the discerning, but the rod is for the backs of those lacking discernment.

Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but the discerning man controls his comments.

The intentions of a person's heart are deep waters, but a discerning person reveals them.

How joyful is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding,

Whoever obtains wisdom loves himself, and whoever treasures understanding will prosper.

Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord not to live any longer like the gentiles live, thinking worthless thoughts. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. Since they have lost all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to sensuality and practice every kind of sexual perversion without restraint.

Whoever tills his soil will have a lot to eat, but anyone who pursues fantasies lacks sense.

Whoever commits adultery with a woman is out of his mind; by doing so he corrupts his own soul.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him. Instead, their thoughts turned to worthless things, and their senseless hearts were darkened. Though claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

Now, all the forming of images means nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their own witnesses cannot see, and they know nothing. So they will be put to shame. Who would shape a god or cast an image that profits nothing? To be sure, all who associate with it will be put to shame; and as for the craftsmen, they are only human. Let them all gather together and take their stand. Then let them be terrified they will be humiliated together. read more.
The blacksmith prepares a tool and works in the coals, then fashions an idol with hammers, working by the strength of his arm. He even becomes hungry and loses his strength; he drinks no water and grows faint. The carpenter measures it with a line; he traces its shape with a stylus, then fashions it with planes and shapes it with a compass. He makes the idol like a human figure, with human beauty, to be at home in a shrine. He cuts down cedars, or chooses a cypress tree or an oak, and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. Or he plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow. He divides it up for people to burn. Taking part of it, he warms himself, makes a fire, and bakes bread. Or perhaps he constructs a god and worships it. He makes it an idol and bows down to it. Half the wood he burns in the fire, and over that half he places meat so he can eat. He sits by its coals, warms himself, and says, "Ah! I am warm in front of the fire." And the rest of it he makes into a god. To blocks of wood he bows down, worships, prays, and says, "Save me, since you are my god." They don't realize; they don't understand, because their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds, too, so they cannot understand. No one stops to think. No one has the knowledge or understanding to think yes to think! "Half of it I burned in the fire. I even baked bread on its coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And am I about to make detestable things from what is left? Am I about to bow down to blocks of wood?"

Being slow to get angry compares to great understanding as being quick-tempered compares to stupidity.

Whoever ignores instruction hates himself, but anyone who heeds reproof gains understanding.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; sound understanding belongs to those who practice it. Praise of God endures forever.

If you scourge a scoffer, the simple person may learn to be discreet; rebuke a discerning man and he will gain understanding.

My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding if, indeed, you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, read more.
if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God. For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk in integrity guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones. Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright every good path.

Then he told them, "These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms had to be fulfilled." Then he opened their minds so that they might understand the Scriptures. He told them, "This is how it is written: the Messiah was to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, read more.
and then repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

"Only may the LORD give you discretion and understanding as he places you in charge over Israel, so you can keep the Law of the LORD your God.

We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true God. We are in union with the one who is true, his Son Jesus the Messiah, who is the true God and eternal life.

However, a spirit exists in mankind, and the Almighty's breath gives him insight."

Your hands made and formed me; give me understanding, that I may learn your commands. May those who fear you see me and be glad, for I have hoped in your word. I know, LORD, that your decrees are just, and that you have rightfully humbled me.

He has commanded mankind: "To fear the Lord that is wisdom; to move away from evil that is understanding.'"

The fear of the LORD is where wisdom begins, and knowing holiness demonstrates understanding.

"I, wisdom, am related to prudence. I know how to be discreet. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. Pride, arrogance, an evil lifestyle, and perverted speech I despise. Counsel belongs to me, along with sound judgment. I am understanding. Power belongs to me.

See! I taught you the statutes and the ordinances, just as the LORD God commanded. Therefore, observe them when you enter the land you are about to possess. Observe them carefully, because this will show your wisdom and discernment in the eyes of people who'll listen to all these decrees. Then they'll say: "Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.'

A man who lacks sense cosigns a loan, becoming a guarantor for his neighbor.

Wisdom characterizes the speech of the discerning, but the rod is for the backs of those lacking discernment.

I went by the field belonging to a lazy man, by a vineyard belonging to a senseless person. There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed. As I observed, I thought about it; I watched, and learned a lesson: read more.
"A little sleep! A little slumber! A little folding of my hands to rest!" Then your poverty will come upon you like a robber, your need like an armed bandit.

"Declare this to the descendants of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah: "Hear this, you foolish and stupid people: They have eyes, but don't see; they have ears, but don't hear.

By faith we understand that time was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are invisible.

Your word is forever, LORD; it is firmly established in heaven. Your faithfulness continues from generation to generation. You established the earth, and it stands firm. To this day they stand by means of your rulings, for all things serve you. read more.
Had your instruction not been my pleasure, I would have died in my affliction. I will never forget your precepts, for you have revived me with them. I am yours, so save me, since I have sought your precepts. The wicked lay in wait to destroy me, while I ponder your decrees. I have observed that all things have their limit, but your commandment is very broad. Mem How I love your instruction! Every day it is my meditation. Your commands make me wiser than my adversaries, since they are always with me. I am more insightful than my teachers, because your decrees are my meditations. I have more common sense than the elders, for I observe your precepts. I keep away from every evil choice so that I may keep your word. I do not avoid your judgments, for you pointed them out to me. How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey. I obtain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every false way. Nun

that is, you will know the love of the Messiah which transcends knowledge, and will be filled with all the fullness of God.

Then God's peace, which goes far beyond anything we can imagine, will guard your hearts and minds in union with the Messiah Jesus.

Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The LORD is the eternal God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not grow tired or weary; and his understanding cannot be fathomed.

Our Lord is great, and rich in power; his understanding has no limitation.

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you, delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things, read more.
and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil; whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways, delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words, someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God. For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead. None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life. This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

By wisdom a house is built; it is made secure through understanding.

Purchase truth, but don't sell it; store up wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

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

For God's wrath is being revealed from heaven against all the ungodliness and wickedness of those who in their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God himself has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible attributes his eternal power and divine nature have been understood and observed by what he made, so that people are without excuse.

No wisdom, insight, or counsel can prevail against the LORD.

How much better than gaining gold is the acquisition of wisdom, the attainment of wisdom better than silver!

Therefore, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Anyone who has understanding is a fountain of life, but foolishness brings punishment to fools.

Good understanding produces grace, but the lifestyle of the treacherous never changes.

By wisdom the LORD laid the earth's foundations, and by understanding he set the heavens in place.

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

How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are unfathomable. A stupid man doesn't know, and a fool can't comprehend this:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not depend on your own understanding.

For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Say to wisdom, "You're my sister!" and call understanding your close relative,