15 Bible Verses about God Giving Understanding
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Every man, no doubt, hath a mind; but it is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth understanding.
Consider what I say. The Lord give thee understanding in all things.
Wicked men discern not the thing that is right, but they that seek after the LORD, discuss all things.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all they that do thereafter. The praise of it endureth forever.
The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting; O grant me understanding, and I shall live.
Through thy commandments I get understanding; therefore I hate all false ways.
Therefore stood they before the king, which in all wisdom and matters of understanding that he enquired of them, found them ten times better than all the soothsayers and charmers that were in all his realm.
For why? There is a man in thy kingdom, that hath the spirit of the holy gods within him, as it was seen in thy father's days. He hath understanding and wisdom like the gods; Yea, the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father made this man chief of the soothsayers, charmers, Chaldeans and devil conjurers:
As for me, this secret is not showed me, for any wisdom that I have, more than any other living: but only that I might show the king the interpretation, that he might know the thoughts of his own heart.
He informed me, and spake unto me, "O Daniel," said he, "I am now come, to make thee understand it:
And we have not received the spirit of the world: but the spirit which cometh of God, for to know the things that are given to us of God,
For this cause we also, since the day we heard of it have not ceased praying for you, and desiring that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my study.
