1 Kings 3:9

Solomon Requests Wisdom From God

⁸ And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude. ⁹ So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” ¹⁰ It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.

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James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

2 Samuel 14:17

And your servant thought, 'The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,' for my lord the king is like the angel of God to discern good and evil. The LORD your God be with you!"

Psalm 72:1-2

Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son!

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

Proverbs 2:3-9

yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.

Psalm 119:144

Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Isaiah 11:2-4

And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.

Exodus 3:11-12

But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

Exodus 4:10-13

But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue."

1 Kings 3:28

And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Grant to Solomon my son a whole heart that he may keep your commandments, your testimonies, and your statutes, performing all, and that he may build the palace for which I have made provision."

Psalm 119:73

Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

Proverbs 3:13-18

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-18

But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Jeremiah 1:6

Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth."

Matthew 3:11

"I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 3:14

John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"

John 5:30

"I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

1 Corinthians 2:14-15

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,

Ephesians 5:17

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

Philippians 1:10

so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.