Colossians 4:5
Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward those without, buying up your opportunities.
Ephesians 5:15-17
See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.
Matthew 10:16
"Behold, it is I who am sending you forth like sheep among wolves. Be then as serpents and as guileless as doves.
Romans 16:19
I say this, for the tidings of your obedience have been told throughout the world. On your own behalf, then, I rejoice; but I want you to be wise unto the good, but innocents in evil.
1 Corinthians 5:12-13
What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?
1 Corinthians 14:19-25
but in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, so as to instruct others, than ten thousand in an unknown tongue.
1 Thessalonians 4:12
So that your conduct may be seemly toward those that are without, and that you may not need help from any man.
1 Timothy 3:7
He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.
James 3:13
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom.
1 Peter 3:1
In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives,
Mark 4:11
He went on to say to them. "The secret truth concerning the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside everything is told in parables,
James 3:17
But the wisdom which comes from on high is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, conciliatory, overflowing with mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without insincerity.
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
James 1:5
If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from the God who gives to all men freely and without upbraiding; and it will be given to him.