94 Bible Verses about Understanding

Great is our LORD, and of great power; There is no limit to His understanding.

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

He who refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he who hears reproof gets understanding.

In the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him who is without understanding.

One despising his friend lacks heart, but a man of understanding remains silent.

Wisdom in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding.

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding shall find good.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

He who tills his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he who follows vanities lacks heart.

Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed. Who has formed a god, or melted a graven image that is good for nothing? Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed; and the craftsmen; they are from men. They shall assemble; all of them shall stand; they shall dread; they shall be ashamed together. read more.
He engraves iron with a tool. He works in the coals, and forms it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Then, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is weak. He fashions wood, and stretches a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with carving tools, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to sit in the house. He cuts down cedars, and takes cypress and oak, which he makes the trees of the forest strong for him; he plants a tree, and the rain makes it grow. And it shall be for a man to burn; for he will take some of it and warm himself. Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god and worships; he makes it a graven image and falls down to it. He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast and is satisfied; yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire. And the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me! for you are my god. They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see; and their hearts so that they cannot understand. And none thinks within his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

He who refuses instruction despises his own soul, but he who hears reproof gets understanding.

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; all practicing them have good understanding; His praise stands forever.

Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove one who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you, so that you attend to wisdom, you shall extend your heart to understanding; yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice for understanding; read more.
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures, then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God. For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding. He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly. He keeps the paths of judgment, and guards the way of His saints. Then you shall understand righteousness and judgment and honesty, every good path.

And He said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms about Me. And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures. And He said to them, So it is written, and so it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, read more.
and that repentance and remission of sins should be proclaimed in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Only may Jehovah give you wisdom and understanding, and direct you concerning Israel, so that you may keep the Law of Jehovah your God.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true. And we are in Him that is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and the everlasting life.

But a spirit is in man giving them perception, even the breath of the Almighty.

JOD: Your hands have made me and formed me; give me understanding so that I may learn Your Commandments. They who fear You will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in Your Word. I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are right, and that You have afflicted me in faithfulness.

And to man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom! And to depart from evil is understanding!

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

I, wisdom, dwell with sense, and find out knowledge of discretions. The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; I hate pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the wicked mouth. Counsel and sound wisdom are mine; I am understanding; I have strength.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, so that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it. And you shall keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

A man lacking heart strikes hands; he pledges in the presence of his friend.

In the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him who is without understanding.

I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man without understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face of it, and its stone wall was broken down. Then I saw; I set my heart on it; I looked and I received instruction. read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down; then your poverty comes stalking, and your want like a man armed with a shield.

Declare this in the house of Jacob, and cry it in Judah, saying, Now hear this, O foolish people and without heart; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not;

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

LAMED: Forever, O Jehovah, Your Word is settled in the heavens. Your faithfulness is to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it remains. They stand to this day according to Your ordinances; for all are Your servants. read more.
Unless Your Law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction. I will never forget Your Commandments; for with them You have given me life. I am Yours, save me; for I have sought Your Commandments. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me; but I will think on Your testimonies. I have seen an end to all perfection; Your Commandment is exceedingly broad. MEM: Oh how I love Your Law! It is my meditation all the day. Through Your Commandments You make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my prayer. I understand more than the old men, because I keep Your Commandments. I have kept my feet from every evil way, so that I might keep Your Word. I have not departed from Your judgments; for You have taught me. How sweet are Your Words to my taste! More than honey to my mouth! Through Your Commandments I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not grow weak nor weary? There is no searching of His understanding.

Great is our LORD, and of great power; There is no limit to His understanding.

When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasing to your soul; judgment shall keep you, understanding shall keep you, to deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks wicked things; read more.
those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked; whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths. They will deliver you from the strange woman, the stranger who flatters with her words, who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house bows down to death, and her paths to the dead. All who go in to her do not return, nor do they take hold of the paths of life, in order that you may walk in the way of good and keep the paths of the righteous.

Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because the thing which may be known of God is clearly revealed within them, for God revealed it to them. For the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being realized by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver!

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Understanding is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

Good understanding gives favor, but the way of traitors is ever flowing.

Jehovah has founded the earth by wisdom; by understanding He has founded the heavens.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.

O Jehovah, how great are Your works; Your purposes are very deep. A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this.

Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding.

For Jehovah gives wisdom; out of His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinsman,