1 Kings 3:9

Solomon Requests Wisdom From God

⁸ Your servant [is] in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance. ⁹ Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?" ¹⁰ The word was good in the eyes of [the] Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.

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James 1:5

Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for [it] from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him.

2 Samuel 14:17

Your servant also thought, 'May the word of my lord the king {bring rest}, for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, {to sense what is good and what is bad}.' May Yahweh your God be with you."

Psalm 72:1-2

O God, give your judgments to [the] king, and your righteousness to [the] king's son.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

Proverbs 2:3-9

For if you cry out for understanding, [if] you lift your voice for insight,

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God.

2 Chronicles 1:10

Now, give to me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this, your great people?"

Psalm 119:34

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

Psalm 119:144

The righteousness of your testimonies [is] forever; give me understanding that I may live.

Proverbs 16:16

Getting wisdom: {how much} better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen {over} silver.

Isaiah 11:2-4

And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him-- a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh.

Exodus 3:11-12

But Moses said to God, "Who [am] I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the {Israelites} out from Egypt?"

Exodus 4:10-13

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I [am] not a man of words, {neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking} to your servant, because I [am] heavy of mouth and of tongue."

1 Kings 3:28

When all of Israel heard the judgment that the king had rendered, they {stood in awe} of the king, because they realized that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Grant to Solomon my son a heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided."

Psalm 119:73

Your hands have made me and established me; give me understanding that I may learn your commands.

Proverbs 3:13-18

Happy [is] {the one} who finds wisdom, and one who obtains understanding.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 20:12

The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made {them both}.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance; {it benefits the living}.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

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

Ecclesiastes 9:15-18

Now, a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom.

Jeremiah 1:6

Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know [how] to speak, for I [am] a youth."

Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who comes after me is more powerful than I [am], whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. 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 do you come to me?"

John 5:30

I am able to do nothing from myself. 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

But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, [and] to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who [is] qualified for these [things]?

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy [is] from God,

Ephesians 5:17

Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

Philippians 1:10

so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy,