A fool has no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may reveal itself.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

To the Law and to the Testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because there is no light in them.

The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed, and are captured. Lo, they have rejected the Word of Jehovah; so what wisdom is in them?

The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to babes.

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.

because, although they know God, they do not glorify Him as God, nor are thankful, but become vain in their reasonings, and their stupid hearts are darkened.

and change the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

who change the truth of God into the lie, and fear and serve the created things more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

Likewise also the men, abandoning the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men with men performing what is shameful, and receiving the retribution within themselves, the penalty which is fitting for their error.

but Israel, pursuing the Law of righteousness, has not arrived at the Law of righteousness.

Why? Because it was not by faith, but as out of works of the Law. For they stumbled at the stumbling stone.

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish that he may become wise.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness;

And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,

For of this they are willfully ignorant: that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water,

they are all plain to the one who understands; and right to those who find knowledge.

Wisdom is before him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.

Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your Law.

You, through Your Commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are always with me.

I understand more than the elders, because I keep Your Precepts.

He answered and said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but to them it has not been given.

For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.