1 Kings 3:9

Solomon Requests Wisdom From God

⁸ Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. 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 was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.

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James 1:5

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

2 Samuel 14:17

Then your maidservant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king be comforting, for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’”

Psalm 72:1-2

A Psalm of Solomon.
Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

Proverbs 2:3-9

For if you cry for discernment,
Lift your voice for understanding;

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only the Lord give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of Yours?”

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, that I may observe Your law
And keep it with all my heart.

Psalm 119:144

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

Proverbs 16:16

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

Isaiah 11:2-4

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
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 that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”

Exodus 4:10-13

Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time 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 of the judgment which the king had handed down, they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.

1 Chronicles 29:19

and give to my son Solomon a perfect heart to keep Your commandments, Your testimonies and Your statutes, and to do them all, and to build the temple, for which I have made provision.”

Psalm 119:73

Yodh.
Your hands made me and fashioned me;
Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

Proverbs 3:13-18

How blessed is the man who finds wisdom
And the man who gains understanding.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,
But the foolishness of fools is deceit.

Proverbs 20:12

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

Ecclesiastes 7:11

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

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom strengthens a 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 delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Jeremiah 1:6

Then I said, “Alas, Lord God!
Behold, I do not know how to speak,
Because I am a youth.”

Matthew 3:11

“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Matthew 3:14

But John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?”

John 5:30

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

1 Corinthians 2:14-15

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma 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 coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

Ephesians 5:17

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

Philippians 1:10

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.