16 Bible Verses about Understanding God's Word

Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.

I am your servant; give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your unchanging word.

Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.

Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.

Let my cry come before you, O Lord; give me wisdom in keeping with your word.

Then he made the holy Writings clear to their minds.

And all the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words which were said to them had been made clear.

And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.

And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.

And it came about that when I, Daniel, had seen this vision, I had a desire for the sense of it to be unfolded; and I saw one before me in the form of a man.

Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.

And the voice of a man came to my ears between the sides of the Ulai, crying out and saying, Gabriel, make the vision clear to this man.

But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.

Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,