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'Intelligent' in the Bible

How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.

In the lips of an intelligent man wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

Wisdom resteth in the heart of the intelligent man; but that which is in the foolish maketh itself known.

The heart of an intelligent man seeketh knowledge; but the mouth of the foolish feedeth on folly.

Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is reckoned wise, and he that shutteth his lips, intelligent.

Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I am intelligent; and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and, like a valiant man, I have brought down them that sit on thrones;

therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? intelligent, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall fall therein.

who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. He, having called Barnabas and Saul to him, desired to hear the word of God.

For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves; but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not intelligent.

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