18 Bible Verses about Acquiring Wisdom
Most Relevant Verses
The chief point of wisdom is that thou be willing to obtain wisdom, and before all thy goods to get the understanding.
Get thee wisdom, get thee understanding, forget not the words of my mouth, and shrink not from them.
Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise.
If thou seekest after her as after money, and diggest for her as for treasures;
Labour for to get the truth, sell not away wisdom, nurture and understanding;
I would they were wise, and understood this, and would consider their latter end.'
Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister," and call understanding thy kinswoman:
that thou wilt incline thin ears unto wisdom; apply thine heart then to understanding.
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the unbelievers to the wisdom of the just men: to make the people ready for the Lord."
Let the word of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdom. Teach and exhort your own selves, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs which have favour with them, singing in your hearts to the Lord.
that he might inform his princes after his will, and teach his senators wisdom.
And so I applied my mind to learn wisdom, and to know the travail that is in the world; and that of such a fashion that I suffered not my eyes to sleep neither day nor night.
