Proverbs 18:15

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹⁴ The spirit of man will bear his infirmity, but a broken spirit who can bear? ¹⁵ The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge,
And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
¹⁶ A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men.

Man of Understanding

Prudent Man

Proverbs 15:14

The heart of him that has understanding seeks wisdom, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

1 Kings 3:9

Give, therefore, thy slave a hearing heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this thy so great a people?

Psalm 119:97-104

MEM. O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Proverbs 1:5

If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get understanding; forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 10:14

Wise men keep knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near unto calamity.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth and sell it not, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Luke 8:8-10

And some fell on good ground and sprang up and bore fruit a hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 10:39

And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word.

2 Timothy 3:15-17

and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto saving health by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

James 1:5

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let them ask of God (who gives abundantly to all, and without reproach), and it shall be given them.