Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

So teach [us] to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

" Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

For your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil.

yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

In the law it is written: "With [men of] other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me," says the Lord.

Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in [those who are] uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are out of your mind?

And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on [his] face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord [is.]

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.

Who [is] wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct [that] his works [are done] in the meekness of wisdom.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

For what [have] I [to do] with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and [that] you may lack nothing.

Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Wives, likewise, [be] submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.