Romans 16:19
For your obedience has come to all; I rejoice in you therefore, but I wish you to be wise for that which is good, and simple for evil.
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Romans 1:8
First, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.
James 3:13-18
What wise and intelligent man is there among you? Let him show his works by good conduct, in the meekness of wisdom.
Luke 10:3
Go; behold I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves.
Ephesians 1:15-18
Therefore, I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love to all the saints,
Ephesians 5:17
Be not foolish therefore, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Philippians 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,
Philippians 2:15
that you may be blameless and sincere, children of God without blame in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as luminaries in the world,
Colossians 1:3-9
We thank the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching with all wisdom, and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God,
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3
We thank God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,
1 Thessalonians 1:8-9
For from you the word of the Lord was proclaimed not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith with respect to God went into every place, so that we had no need to say any thing;
1 Thessalonians 3:6-10
But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you,
2 Timothy 3:15-17
and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.