Proverbs 18:15

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

¹⁴ A person's spirit sustains him through sickness -- but who can bear a crushed spirit? ¹⁵ The discerning person acquires knowledge, and the wise person seeks knowledge. ¹⁶ A person's gift makes room for him, and leads him before important people.

Man of Understanding

Prudent Man

Proverbs 15:14

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

1 Kings 3:9

So give your servant a discerning mind so he can make judicial decisions for your people and distinguish right from wrong. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours."

Psalm 119:97-104

(Mem) O how I love your law! All day long I meditate on it.

Proverbs 1:5

(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)

Proverbs 4:5

Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is supreme -- so acquire wisdom, and whatever you acquire, acquire understanding!

Proverbs 9:9

Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

Proverbs 10:14

Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.

Proverbs 23:23

Acquire truth and do not sell it -- wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

Luke 8:8-10

But other seed fell on good soil and grew, and it produced a hundred times as much grain." As he said this, he called out, "The one who has ears to hear had better listen!"

Luke 10:39

She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to what he said.

2 Timothy 3:15-17

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

James 1:5

But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.