1 Kings 3:9
So give your servant a discerning mind so he can make judicial decisions for your people and distinguish right from wrong. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours."
James 1:5
But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.
2 Samuel 14:17
So your servant said, 'May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the Lord your God be with you!'"
Psalm 72:1-2
For Solomon. O God, grant the king the ability to make just decisions! Grant the king's son the ability to make fair decisions!
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
Proverbs 2:3-9
indeed, if you call out for discernment -- raise your voice for understanding --
1 Chronicles 22:12
Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel, so you may obey the law of the Lord your God.
2 Chronicles 1:10
Now give me wisdom and discernment so I can effectively lead this nation. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours."
Psalm 119:34
Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.
Psalm 119:144
Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.
Isaiah 11:2-4
The Lord's spirit will rest on him -- a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the Lord.
Exodus 3:11-12
Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"
Exodus 4:10-13
Then Moses said to the Lord, "O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."
1 Kings 3:28
When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected the king, for they realized that he possessed supernatural wisdom to make judicial decisions.
1 Chronicles 29:19
Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations."
Psalm 119:73
(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.
Proverbs 3:13-18
Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who obtains understanding.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.
Proverbs 20:12
The ear that hears and the eye that sees -- the Lord has made them both.
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing; it benefits those who see the light of day.
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom gives a wise person more protection than ten rulers in a city.
Ecclesiastes 9:15-18
However, a poor but wise man lived in the city, and he could have delivered the city by his wisdom, but no one listened to that poor man.
Jeremiah 1:6
I answered, "Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young."
Matthew 3:11
"I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am -- I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Matthew 3:14
But John tried to prevent him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?"
John 5:30
I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
1 Corinthians 2:14-15
The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as if it were coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
Ephesians 5:17
For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord's will is.
Philippians 1:10
so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,
James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.