94 Bible Verses about Understanding

Great our Lord, and great of power: to his understanding no number.

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

The eyes of your understanding enlightened; for you to know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the holy ones,

He driving away instruction despised his soul: and he hearing reproof obtained a heart

In the lips of him understanding, wisdom shall be found: and a rod for the back of him wanting heart

He wanting heart despised for his neighbor: and a man of understanding will be silent.

Deep waters are counsel in the heart of man; and a man of understanding will draw it out

Happy the man finding wisdom; and the man shall bring forth understanding.

He obtaining a heart loved his soul: he watched understanding to find good.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

He working his earth shall be filled with bread: and he pursuing vain things wanted heart.

He committing adultery with a woman lacked a heart: destroying his soul he will do it.

Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened. 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.

They forming a carved image all of them emptiness; and their delights shall not profit, and they are their witnesses; they will not see and they will not know, so that they shall be ashamed. Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing? Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they from man, they shall be gathered together, all of them; they shall stand, they shall tremble, they shall be ashamed together. read more.
The workman of iron with an axe also worked with coal, and he will cleave it with hammers, and will work with the arm of his strength: also he hungered and no strength: he drank not water and was wearied. The workman of woods stretched out the line; he will delineate it with an awl, he will do it with chisels, and he will delineate it with a compass, and he will make it according to the image of a man, according to the beauty of man; to dwell in the house To cut down for him cedars, and he will take the fir tree and the oak, and he will strengthen for himself among the trees of the forest: he planted an ash and the rain will cause to grow. And it was for a man to burn: and he will take from them and he will be warmed; also he will kindle, and bake bread; also he will make a god, and he will worship; he made it a carved image, and he will fall down to them. Half of it he burnt in the fire; upon half of it he will eat flesh; he will roast roast, and he will be satisfied: also he will be warm, and he will say, Aha, I was warm, I saw the light And its remainder he made for a god, for his carved image: he will fall down to it, and he will worship and pray to it, and say, Deliver me, for thou my god. They will not know, and they will not discern: he spread over their eyes from seeing; their heart from considering. And none will set to his heart; and not knowledge, and not understanding to say, Half of it I burnt in the fire; and also I baked bread upon its coals; I will roast flesh and eat: and its remainder shall I make for an abomination? shall I fall down to a trunk of wood?

The slow to anger of much understanding: and the short of spirit exalts folly.

He driving away instruction despised his soul: and he hearing reproof obtained a heart

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

Thou shalt strike him mocking, and the simple will be crafty: and reprove to him understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commands with thee; To attend to wisdom thou wilt incline thine ear, thy heart to understanding; For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding read more.
If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure; Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and thou shalt find the knowledge of God. For Jehovah will give wisdom: from his mouth knowledge and understanding. He treasured up deliverance for the upright: a shield to those going in uprightness: To guard the paths of judgment, and he will watch the way of his godly ones. Then thou shalt understand justice and judgment and uprightness; every good track.

And he said to them, These the words which I spake to you, being yet with you, for all things must be completed, written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, to understand the writings, And he said to them, That so has it been written, and so was it necessary for Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: read more.
And repentance and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, having begun from Jerusalem.

Surely Jehovah will give to thee wisdom and understanding, and he will command thee concerning Israeli and to watch the law of Jehovah thy God.

And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding, and we know him true, and we are in him true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty will cause them to understand.

Thy hands made me and they will prepare me: cause me to understand and I will learn thy commands. They fearing thee shall see me and be glad; for I hoped for thy word. I knew, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are justice, and in truth thou didst humble me.

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, and the knowledge of the holy ones is understanding.

I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations. The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated. To me counsel and wisdom: I am understanding; to me is strength.

See, I taught you laws and judgments as Jehovah my God commanded me, to do thus in the midst of the land where ye are going there to possess it And watch and do: for it is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who shall hear all these laws, and say, Only this great nation a wise and understanding people.

A man wanting heart will strike the hand, pledging a pledge before his friend.

In the lips of him understanding, wisdom shall be found: and a rod for the back of him wanting heart

I passed upon the field of the slothful man, and upon the vineyard of the man wanting heart; And behold, it came up all of it with thorns; brambles covered its face, and the wall of its stones was overthrown. And I shall see and set my heart: I looked, I took instruction. read more.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down: And thy poverty came going about, and thy want as a man of shield.

Announce ye this in the house of Jacob, and cause it to be heard in Judah, saying, Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear:

By faith we perceive that the times were adjusted by the word of God, so that things seen have been born not of things brought to light.

Forever, O Jehovah, thy word was set in the heavens. To generation and generation thy faithfulness: thou didst prepare the earth and it will stand. They stood according to thy judgments this day, for all are thy servants. read more.
Unless thy law was my delight I perished in mine affliction. Forever will I not forget thy charges, for in them thou didst make me live. I am to thee; save me; for I sought thy charges. The unjust waited for me to destroy me: I shall understand thy testimonies. I saw the end to all perfection: thy command is exceeding broad. How I loved thy law I all the day it is my meditation. Above mine enemies thou wilt make me wise from thy commands, for It is forever to me. Above all those teaching me I understood, for thy testimonies a meditation to me. I shall understand above the old men, for I watched thy charges. I withheld my feet from every evil way, so that I watch thy word. I departed not from thy judgments, for thou didst teach me. How smooth were thy words to my palate I more than honey to my mouth! From thy charges I shall understand: for this I hated every way of falsehood.

To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.

And the peace of God, surpassing all understanding, shall watch your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Didst thou not know? heardest thou not the eternal God, Jehovah, creating the extremities of the earth, will not faint, and will not be weary? no searching to his understanding.

Great our Lord, and great of power: to his understanding no number.

For wisdom shall come into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul. Meditation shall watch over thee, understanding shall guard thee: To deliver thee from the evil way, from the man speaking deceit; read more.
Those forsaking the paths of straightness to go in the ways of darkness; Those rejoicing to do evil will exult in the deceit of evil; Whose paths are perverted, and in their tracks are bent aside: To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings; Forsaking the friend of her youth, and forgetting the covenant of her God. For her house sunk down to death, and her tracks to the shades. All going in it shall not turn back, and they shall not overtake the paths of life. So that thou shalt go in the way of the good, and thou shalt watch the paths of the just

By wisdom a house will be built, and it will be prepared by understanding:

Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Wisdom the beginning; obtain wisdom, and with all thine acquisition, obtain understanding.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice; Wherefore that known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested to them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world, being understood by things made, are inspected, truly both his eternal power and divinity; so that they are inexcusable:

No wisdom and no understanding, and no counsel against Jehovah.

The obtaining of wisdom how good above gold and the obtaining of understanding to be chosen above silver.

For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

The understanding of him possessing it is a fountain of life: and the instruction of the foolish is folly.

Good understanding shall give grace: and the way of the transgressing is perpetuity.

Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; he prepared the heavens by understanding.

The foolish one will not delight in understanding, but in, the disclosings of his heart

How great were thy works, O Jehovah! thy thoughts were very deep. A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding.

For Jehovah will give wisdom: from his mouth knowledge and understanding.

Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding: