Colossians 4:5
Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity.
Ephesians 5:15-17
Take great care, then, how you live--not unwisely but wisely,
Matthew 10:16
Remember, I am sending you out as my Messengers like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as serpents, and as blameless as doves.
Romans 16:19
Every one has heard of your ready obedience. It is true that I am very happy about you, but I want you to be well versed in all that is good, and innocent of all that is bad.
1 Corinthians 5:12-13
What have I to do with judging those outside the Church? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the Church,
1 Corinthians 14:19-25
But at a meeting of the Church I would rather speak five words with my mind, and so teach others, than ten thousand words when using the gift of 'tongues.'
1 Thessalonians 4:12
So that your conduct may win respect from those outside the Church, and that you may not want for anything.
1 Timothy 3:7
He should also be well spoken of by outsiders, that he may not incur censure and so fall into the snares of the Devil.
James 3:13
Who among you claims to be wise and intelligent? Let him show that his actions are the outcome of a good life lived in the humility of true wisdom.
1 Peter 3:1
Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the Message, they may, apart from the Message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,
Mark 4:11
And he said: "To you the hidden truth of the Kingdom of God has been imparted; but to those who are outside it all teaching takes the form of parables, that--
James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is, before every thing else, pure; then peace-loving, gentle, open to conviction, rich in compassion and good deeds, and free from partiality and insincerity.
Colossians 3:16
Let the Message of the Christ dwell in your minds in all its wealth, bringing all wisdom with it. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, and hymns, and sacred songs, full of the loving- kindness of God, lifting your hearts in song to him.
James 1:5
If one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask wisdom from the God who gives freely to every one without reproaches, and it will be given to him.