Ecclesiastes 8:1

Wisdom Is Valuable

¹ Who is like the wise man and who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom illumines him and causes his stern face to beam. ² I counsel you: Keep the king's command because of the oath before God.

All Things

Wise Man

Deuteronomy 28:50

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

Exodus 34:29-30

Moses came down from Mount Sinai. The two tablets of the testimony were in Moses' hand as he came down from the mountain. Moses did not know that the skin of his face glowed because he spoke with God.

Proverbs 4:8-9

Love wisdom and she will exalt you. Embrace wisdom and she will honor you.

Acts 6:15

All who sat in the council looked intently at him and saw his face was like the face of an angel.

Genesis 40:8

We both had dreams, they answered him, but there is no one to tell us what they mean. Is it not God who can tell what dreams mean? Joseph asked them. Tell me all about them.

Genesis 41:15-16

The king said: I had a dream. No one can explain what it means. I am told that you can interpret dreams.

Genesis 41:38-39

and he said to them: We will never find a better man than Joseph. He is a man who has God's Spirit in him.

Job 33:23

Yet if there is an angel on his side as a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,

Proverbs 1:6

This will help him understand a proverb and the interpretation as well as the words of the wise and their riddles.

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is near the one who understands. But the eyes of a fool are far away at the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 24:5

A wise man is strong. A man of knowledge increases strength.

Ecclesiastes 2:13-14

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways just as the light is better than the dark.

Daniel 2:28-30

There is a God in heaven that reveals secrets. He made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in days to come. Your dream and visions are these:

Daniel 2:47

The king spoke to Daniel: It is true, your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you were able to reveal this secret.

Daniel 4:18-19

I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen this dream and you O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation! For all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make the interpretation known to me. You are able for the spirit of the holy gods is in you!'

Matthew 17:2

While they watched, Jesus' appearance changed (transformed) (transfigured) in their presence. His face was as bright as the sun and his clothes became as white as the light.

Acts 4:13

They observed the confidence of Peter and John. Yet they thought they were uneducated (not formally educated) and ordinary men. They were amazed and recognized them as having been with Jesus.

Acts 4:29

Now Jehovah behold their threats and grant that your servants keep speaking your word with boldness.

1 Corinthians 2:13-16

We speak these things, not in the words that man's wisdom teaches. But we speak them with the words the Holy Spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.

Ephesians 6:19

Pray on my behalf, that ability to speak may be given to me, to make known with boldness the secret of the good news.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the people of the nations might hear. I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion (Satan the Devil) (great danger) (1 Peter 5:8) (Psalm 22:21) (1 Thessalonians 2:18).

2 Peter 1:20

Know this first that no prophecy of scripture is for private interpretation.