Colossians 4:5
Practice living prudently in your relations with outsiders, making the most of your opportunities.
Ephesians 5:15-17
So you must be very careful how you live, not thoughtlessly but thoughtfully,
Matthew 10:16
"Listen! I am sending you out as sheep surrounded by wolves. So you must be sensible like serpents and guileless like doves.
Romans 16:19
Yes, your obedience has been told to everybody; so I am delighted about you, but I want you to be wise about what is good and innocent about what is bad.
1 Corinthians 5:12-13
For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church,
1 Corinthians 14:19-25
But in the public congregation I would rather speak five words with my mind in action, in order to instruct the people too, than ten thousand words in ecstasy.
1 Thessalonians 4:12
so that you may live influentially with the outsiders, and not be dependent on anybody.
1 Timothy 3:7
He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.
James 3:13
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show by his noble living that his good deeds are done in humility, which wisdom prompts.
1 Peter 3:1
You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that, if any of them do not believe the message, they may be won over without a word through the living of the wives,
Mark 4:11
Then He said to them, "To you the secret of the kingdom of God has been entrusted, but to those who are on the outside everything is presented in stories, so that
James 3:17
The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, free from doubts and insincerity.
Colossians 3:16
Let the message of Christ continue to live in you in all its wealth of wisdom; keep on teaching it to one another and training one another in it with thankfulness, in your hearts singing praise to God with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
James 1:5
But if any one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask God who generously gives to everyone and never reproaches one with its lack, and it will be given to him.