"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.

I say this to shame you. Is it so that there is not among you a single wise man, capable of deciding between a man and his brother?

"Every one who hears my words and does them I will liken to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.

The Lord answered. "Who then is that faithful steward, the wise man whom his Lord will put in charge of the rations in due time?

While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape.

Let no one deceive himself. If any one of you supposes that he is wise in the philosophy of the present age, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

I have not indeed the audacity to class myself among, or compare myself with, certain of the self-commenders; yet they are not wise in measuring themselves by one another and in comparing themselves with one another.

Although you are wise, you put up with fools willingly enough!

For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep.

and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.