Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Understand
General references
Bible References
Understand
1 Kings 12:6
And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, How do ye advise to return answer to this people?
Job 12:12
With the aged is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
Job 15:9
What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou which is not in us?
Job 32:4
But Elihu had waited till Job had finished speaking, because they were older than he.
Because
Psalm 111:10
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do his precepts: his praise abideth for ever.
Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Jeremiah 8:8
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it falsehood.
Matthew 7:24
Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock;
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
General references
Deuteronomy 17:19
and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;
Proverbs 8:9
They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.