Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
And the
But
Bible References
Wise
Matthew 13:11
"Why do you speak to them in parables?" Jesus answered. "To you it has been granted to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it has not been granted.
John 8:47
"He who is from God listens to God's words. For this reason you do not listen, because you are not from God."
John 18:37
"You are a king, then? You!" said Pilate. "You say truly that I am a king." answered Jesus, "for this purpose I was born, and to this end came I into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Every man who is of the truth listens to my voice."
And the
Matthew 11:19
and the Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Lo, a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners!' Nevertheless, Wisdom is justified by her deeds."
But
Luke 2:34
"Behold this child is set for the falling and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
Luke 4:28
When they had heard these words, those in the synagogue were filled with fury;
Luke 7:23
"And blessed is he who finds no cause of stumbling in me."
John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 9:39
"For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing blind."
John 15:24
"If I had not done among them such works as none ever did, they would have had no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Romans 9:32
And why? Because they sought it not by faith, but thought to gain it by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling;
2 Corinthians 2:15
I am Christ's fragrance upwafted unto God, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing;
2 Thessalonians 2:9
even he whose coming is according to the energy of Satan, in every power and sign and lying wonder,
1 Peter 2:7
For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,