16 Bible Verses about Understanding God's Word

YODH. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

I am thy servant; give me understanding, That I may know thy testimonies.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.

Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So shall I meditate on thy wondrous works.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

TAV. Let my cry come near before thee, O Jehovah: Give me understanding according to thy word.

Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.

Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard: and I am come for thy words'sake.

And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

but, as it is written, They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.

which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, even Christ,