18 Bible Verses about Acquiring Wisdom
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The principal thing, is wisdom, acquire thou wisdom, With all thine acquisition, acquire thou understanding.
Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, Do not forget, neither decline thou from the sayings of my mouth.
If thou seek her as silver, and, like hid treasure, thou search for her,
Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.
Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, and, ye dullards understand sense;
If they had been wise, they would have understood this, - They would have given heed to their here-after!
How happy the man who hath found wisdom, and the man who draweth forth understanding,
Say unto wisdom, My sister, thou! and, an acquaintance, call thou, understanding:
So that thou direct, unto wisdom, thine ear, bend thy heart, unto understanding;
How to number our days, so grant us to know, That we may win us a heart that hath wisdom.
And, he, shall go before him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, - To turn the hearts of fathers unto children, and the unyielding, into the prudence of the righteous, and to prepare, for the Lord, a people made ready.
Let, the word of the Christ, dwell within you richly, - in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, with gratitude, raising song with your hearts unto God:
For the knowledge of wisdom and correction, for discerning the sayings of intelligence;
That he might bind his rulers as he pleased, And, his elders, he might embue with wisdom.
When I gave my heart, to know wisdom, and to consider the business that was done upon the earth, then surely, by day and by night, there was one who suffered not his eyes, to sleep.
