1 Kings 3:9

Solomon Requests Wisdom From God

⁸ I am among the people you have chosen to be your own. They are a people who are so many that they cannot be 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 Jehovah was pleased that Solomon asked for this.

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James 1:5

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

2 Samuel 14:17

I can rest easy now that you have given your decision. You know the difference between right and wrong just like an angel of God. I pray that Jehovah your God will be with you.

Psalm 72:1-2

([Prayers of David]) O God, give the king your justice. Give your righteousness to the royal son.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.

Proverbs 2:3-9

Call out for insight. Lift up your voice for understanding.

1 Chronicles 22:12

May Jehovah give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of Jehovah your God.

2 Chronicles 1:10

Please give me the wisdom and knowledge I need to rule over them. Otherwise, how would I ever be able to 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 laws are righteous forever. Give me understanding that I may live.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding instead of silver!

Isaiah 11:2-4

The Spirit of Jehovah will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and respect for Jehovah will be his.

Exodus 3:11-12

But Moses said: Who am I to go to Pharaoh and lead your people out of Egypt?

Exodus 4:10-13

Moses said: O Jehovah I am not a man of words. I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant. Talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.

1 Kings 3:28

The people of Israel heard of Solomon's decision and were all filled with deep respect for him. They knew then that God had given him the wisdom to settle disputes fairly.

1 Chronicles 29:19

Give my son Solomon a wholehearted desire to obey everything that you command and to build the Temple for which I have made these preparations.

Psalm 119:73

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. Happy is the man who gains understanding.

Proverbs 14:8

The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way. The folly of fools is deception.

Proverbs 20:12

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

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is good as an inheritance: It is an advantage to those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men who are in the city.

Ecclesiastes 9:15-18

Now there was found in it a poor wise man. By his wisdom he delivered the city. Yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Jeremiah 1:6

I, Jeremiah, said: Lord Jehovah, I do not know how to speak. I am only a child!

Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water because of your repentance. He that comes after me is mightier than I. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire. I am not even good enough to carry his sandals.

Matthew 3:14

I need to be baptized by you, John said. Why are you coming to me?

John 5:30

I can do nothing by myself. So I hear and judge and my judgment is righteous. I do not seek my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

1 Corinthians 2:14-15

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him! He cannot know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one an aroma of death leading to death and to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

2 Corinthians 3:5

We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God.

Ephesians 5:17

Do not be foolish, but understand (perceive) what the will of Jehovah is.

Philippians 1:10

This way you may approve (test) the things that are excellent (of more value). May you be sincere and without offense (blameless) to others till the day of Christ.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy.