Bible Cross References
Give therefore
1 Chronicles 22:12
Only may the Lord give you wisdom and prudence, and strengthen you over Israel, both to keep and to do the law of the Lord your God.
1 Chronicles 29:19
And to Solomon my son give a good heart, to perform Your commandments, and [to observe] Your testimonies, and Your ordinances, and to accomplish the building of Your house.
2 Chronicles 1:10
Now give me wisdom and understanding, I pray, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who shall judge this, Your great people?
Psalm 119:34
Instruct me, and I will search out Your law, and will keep it with my whole heart.
Psalm 119:73
Your hands have made me, and fashioned me; instruct me, that I may learn Your commandments.
Psalm 119:144
Your testimonies [are] an everlasting righteousness; instruct me, and I shall live.
Proverbs 2:3-9
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For if you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;
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and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures;
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then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.
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For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His presence come knowledge and understanding,
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and He treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: He will protect their way;
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that He may guard the righteous ways: and He will preserve the way of them that fear Him.
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Then shall you understand righteousness and judgment, equity [and] every good path.
Proverbs 3:13-18
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Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence.
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For it is better to traffic for her, than for treasures of gold and silver.
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And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her. She is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value.
16
For length of days and years of life are in her right hand, and in her left hand are wealth and glory. [ 3:16A] Out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.
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Her ways are good ways, and all her paths are peaceful.
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She is a tree of life to all that lay hold of her, and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.
Proverbs 16:16
The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
understanding
Proverbs 20:12
The ear hears, and the eye sees; even both of them are the Lord's work.
to judge
1 Kings 3:28
And all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to execute judgment.
Psalm 72:1
For Solomon. O God, give Your judgment to the king, and Your righteousness to the king's son;
Psalm 72:2
[that he may] judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways, but the folly of fools leads astray.
Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is good with an inheritance; and [there is] an advantage [by it] to them that see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 7:19
Wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
Ecclesiastes 9:15-18
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and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man.
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And I said, Wisdom is better than power; yet the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not listened to.
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The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war; and one sinner will destroy much good.
John 5:30
I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
discern
2 Samuel 14:17
And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious,--[well]: for as an angel of God, so [is] my lord the king, to hear good and evil; and the Lord your God shall be with you.
Isaiah 11:2-4
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and the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill Him;
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the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report;
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but He shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth; and He shall smite the earth with the word of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He destroy the ungodly one.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no man.
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].
Philippians 1:10
that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the mature, for those because of their practice have their senses trained for the distinguishing of both good and evil.
who is able
Exodus 3:11
And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and that I should bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt?
Exodus 3:12
And God spoke to Moses, saying, I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that I shall send you forth: when you bring out My people out of Egypt, then you shall serve God in this mountain.
Exodus 4:10-13
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And Moses said to the Lord, I pray, Lord, I have not been sufficient in former times, neither from the time that You have begun to speak to Your servant: I am weak in speech, and slow-tongued.
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And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man, and who has made the very hard of hearing, and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Have not I, God?
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And now go, and I will open your mouth, and will instruct you in what you shall say.
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And Moses said, O Lord, I pray, appoint another able person whom You shall send.
Jeremiah 1:6
And I said, O Lord, Sovereign Lord, behold, I know not [how] to speak, for I am a child.
Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 3:14
But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need by You to be baptized, and You are coming to me?"
2 Corinthians 2:16
To some we are the fragrance of death [leading] to death, but to others the fragrance of life [leading] to life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,