53 Bible Verses about Intelligence

The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah, and the knowledge of the holy ones is understanding.

And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah: a good understanding to all doing them: his praise stands forever.

Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom.

Jehovah knew the thoughts of man that they are vanity.

And thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run through and knowledge shall be multiplied.

(And all the Athenians and strangers being present, passed time in nothing else but to say or hear some thing new.)

And again, The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

Where the wise? where the scribe? where the seekers together of this life has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, God was contented by the foolishness of proclaiming to save them believing.

Search the writings; for ye think in them to have eternal life: and these are they testifying of me. And ye wish not to come to me, that ye might have life.

Declaring themselves to be wise, they were fools, And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of flying things, and of creeping things, and of quadrupeds.

See ye lest any be carrying you off by philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

Which things truly are having the word of wisdom in worship according to one's will, and humility, and prodigality of the body; not in any honour to satisfying the flesh.

And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house. And if any one thinks to know anything, as yet he has known nothing as he ought to know.

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit. For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed.

For this, behold me adding to be wonderful with this people, dealing wonderfully and being a wonder: and the wisdom of their wise perished, and the understanding of their understanding ones shall be hid.

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

Bringing to naught the signs at vain boasters, and he will make those divining, foolish; turning back the wise backward, and he will frustrate their knowledge.

For it has been written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and put away the understanding of the intelligent.

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born: But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:read more.
That no flesh might boast before him. And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness: That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.

And seeing the freedom of speech of Peter and John, and comprehending that they are illiterate men, and private individuals, they wondered; and they knew them, that they were with Jesus.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole mind, and from thy whole strength: this the first command.

And Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.

And he having answered, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and from thy whole soul, and from thy whole strength; and thy neighbor as thyself.

And he who has stood firmly fixed in heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his virgin, does well.

What therefore is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the mind: I will play on the harp in the spirit, and I will play also on the harp in the mind. When if thou praise in the spirit, how shall he filling the place of the private individual say Amen at thy thanksgiving) since he knows not what thou sayest For thou truly givest thanks well, but the other is not built up.read more.
I thank my God, speaking in tongues more than you all:

And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

This the covenant which I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord, giving my laws upon their heart, and upon their minds will I write them;

For this the covenant that I will cut out with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah; I gave my law in the midst of them, and upon their heart will I write it; and I was to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people.

For they being according to the flesh mind things of the flesh; and they according to the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For the thought of the flesh, death; and the thought of the Spirit, life and peace.

Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God. And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Think of things above, and not upon those upon the earth.

And the name of the man Nabal; and his wife's name Abigail: and the woman good of understanding, and beautiful of form: and the man hard and evil of works; and he as his dog.

And Huram will say, Praised be Jehovah God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who gave to David the king a wise son, knowing intelligence and understanding, who will build a house to Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.

Children whom not any blemish in them, and good of aspect, and understanding in all wisdom, and knowing knowledge, and understanding intelligence, and to whom power in them to stand in the king's temple, and to teach them the writing and tongue of the chaldees

And these four children, God gave to them knowledge and understanding in all writing and wisdom: and Daniel understood in every vision and dreams.

And a certain Pharisee having risen up in the council, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honoured by all the people, urged to put the sent without a little while.

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in words and in works.

And having passed through the island to Paphos, they found a certain magician, a false prophet, a Jew, the name to him Barjesus: Who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paul, an intelligent man; he having called Barnabas and Saul, sought anxiously to hear the word of God.

And he defending himself by these, Festus said with a great voice, Thou art frenzied, Paul; many letters turn thee to madness.

For Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do, and to teach in Israel the law and judgment.

And he will say to me, Thou shalt not fear, Daniel: for from the first day that thou gavest thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I came for thy words.

And they were of more noble birth than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, and examined the writings daily, if these things might hold thus.

Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.

And Joseph the son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and Joseph will go forth from the face of Pharaoh, and will pass over all the land of Egypt And the earth will make in the seven years of plenty by handfuls. And he will gather all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and he will give the food in the cities: the food of the field of the city which round about her, he gave in the midst of her.read more.
And Joseph will gather grain as the sand of the sea, exceedingly much that he ceased to number; for there was no numbering.

See, I called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And I will fill him with the spirit of God, in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work. To meditate work of skill, to work in gold and in silver and in brass.read more.
And in graving stone for filling up, and in graving wood, to work in all work. And I, behold, I gave him Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all the wise of heart I gave wisdom; and they shall make all which I commanded thee:

And Moses will say to the sons of Israel, See, Jehovah called by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And he will fill him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work; And to invent works of skill, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,read more.
And in working stone for filling in, and in working wood, to work in all work of works of skill. He gave in his heart to teach, he and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. He filled them with wisdom of heart, to do all the work of engraving, of inventing, and variegating in cerulean purple, and in red purple, and in double scarlet, and in byssus, and of weaving, and of those doing all work, and of those devising works of skill.

And king Solomon will send and take Hiram out of Tyre. Son of a widow woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father a Tyrian man, an artificer of brass; and he will be filled with wisdom and understanding, and knowledge to do all the work in brass. And he will come to king Solomon and do all his works.

And now I sent a wise man knowing understanding to Huram my father, The son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father a man of Tyre knowing to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stones, and in woods, in purple, in cerulean purple, and in byssus, and in crimson; and to engrave every engraving, and to invent every work of art which shall be given to him, with thy wise ones, and the wise of my lord David thy father.

And he will make in Jerusalem engines, devised of him devising, to be upon the towers and upon the corners to cast with arrows and with great stones. And his name went forth even to afar off; for he was made wonderful to help even till he was strong.

At that time Daniel came in before the king. The king answered and said to Daniel, Is it thou, Daniel, which is from the sons of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought from Judah? I heard concerning thee that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and his light and his understanding and excellent wisdom was found in thee.

It seemed fitting to me also, having comprehended all things thoroughly from above, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of the words concerning which thou hast been instructed.