'Understanding' in the Bible
And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment.
And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
But he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thine understanding; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Then he opened their understanding to understand the scriptures,
Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful;
But I say, Has not Israel known? First, Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy through them that are not a nation: through a nation without understanding I will anger you.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.
For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing also with the understanding.
but in the assembly I desire to speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in a tongue.
being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,
For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.
and the peace of God, which surpasses every understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts by Christ Jesus.
For this reason we also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
to the end that their hearts may be encouraged, being united together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the full knowledge of the mystery of God;
desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.
Think of what I say, for the Lord will give thee understanding in all things.
Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding that we should know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Here is wisdom. He that has understanding let him count the number of the beast: for it is a man's number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
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