Romans 16:19
Your obedience is known to all and thus I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
Matthew 10:16
"I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Romans 1:8
First of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
James 3:13-18
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.
1 Kings 3:9-12
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 101:2
I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.
Isaiah 11:2-3
The Lord's spirit will rest on him -- a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the Lord.
Jeremiah 4:22
The Lord answered, "This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good."
Luke 10:3
Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.
Ephesians 1:15-18
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
Ephesians 5:17
For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord's will is.
Philippians 1:9
And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight
Philippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world
Colossians 1:3-9
We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3
We thank God always for all of you as we mention you constantly in our prayers,
1 Thessalonians 1:8-9
For from you the message of the Lord has echoed forth not just in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place reports of your faith in God have spread, so that we do not need to say anything.
1 Thessalonians 3:6-10
But now Timothy has come to us from you and given us the good news of your faith and love and that you always think of us with affection and long to see us just as we also long to see you!
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.