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100 Bible Verses about Wise

 

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 83 helpful votes 

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Ephesians 5:15 ESV / 40 helpful votes 

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,

James 3:13-14 ESV / 33 helpful votes 

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him
show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and
selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 28 helpful votes 

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in
the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of
various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces
steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be
perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him
ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given
him. ...

Daniel 12:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes 

And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and
those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes 

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is
a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 24 helpful votes 

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own
understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight
your paths.

Matthew 10:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes 

“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as

serpents and innocent as doves.

Psalm 19:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes 

The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is
sure, making wise the simple;

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors

there is safety.

Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all
the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's
mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge.

1 Corinthians 1:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of
the discerning I will thwart.”

Romans 16:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to
be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks
closer than a brother.

Proverbs 9:9-10 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous
man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Luke 16:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust
to you the true riches?

Luke 1:37 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Romans 1:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Matthew 7:22-24 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your
name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your
name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me,
you workers of lawlessness.’ “Everyone then who hears these words of mine
and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they
fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him
gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's
wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 2:1-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to
understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for
understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden
treasures, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the
knowledge of God.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual
worship.

Psalm 50:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify
me.”

1 Corinthians 1:26-28 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to
worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But
God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is
weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in
the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,

Romans 11:34 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?”

Luke 14:28 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count
the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Proverbs 15:1-14 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. The tongue
of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly. The
eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good. A
gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit. A fool
despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent. ...

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and
instruction.

1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom,
it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Romans 11:32-33 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all. Oh,
the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How
unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

John 14:15-17 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of
truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows
him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Luke 6:38 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken
together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use
it will be measured back to you.”

Matthew 7:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest
they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.

Isaiah 25:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his
distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of
the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Psalm 101:7-8 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who utters lies
shall continue before my eyes. Morning by morning I will destroy all the
wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 ESV / 11 helpful votes 

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you
life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your
offspring may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding
fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the
land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,
to give them.”

John 15:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in
me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in
the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the
branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for
apart from me you can do nothing.

Luke 6:35-37 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return,
and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is
kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be
condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;

Matthew 7:24-26 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a
wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods
came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because
it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of
mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on
the sand.

Jeremiah 17:5-8 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his
strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the
desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places
of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “Blessed is the man who trusts in
the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends
out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves
remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease
to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the
mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let
him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am
the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these things I delight, declares the LORD.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,
declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55:7-9 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him
return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for
he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are
your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your
thoughts.

Proverbs 21:29-31 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

A wicked man puts on a bold face, but the upright gives thought to his ways.
No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD. The
horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.

Proverbs 21:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Whoever keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.

Proverbs 18:20-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

From the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the
yield of his lips. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who
love it will eat its fruits.

Proverbs 13:20-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will
suffer harm. Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with
good.

Proverbs 4:26-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to
the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

Proverbs 3:26-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

For the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being
caught. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your
power to do it.
Psalm 101:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty
look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

Psalm 101:3-4 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of
those who fall away; it shall not cling to me. A perverse heart shall be far from
me; I will know nothing of evil.

Psalm 84:10-12 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be
a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No
good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly. O LORD of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!

Psalm 41:1-3 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who considers the
poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him; the LORD protects him and
keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the
will of his enemies. The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you
restore him to full health.

Psalm 34:11-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. What man
is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep
your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil
and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Psalm 32:1-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

A Maskil of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose

sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent, my bones wasted
away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was
heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah I
acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will
confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.
Selah

Job 5:12-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are
brought to a quick end. They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at
noonday as in the night.

1 Kings 3:26-28 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart
yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means
put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours;
divide him.” Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first
woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.” And all Israel
heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of
the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do
justice.

Genesis 50:19-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes 

But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you,
you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that
many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will
provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke
kindly to them.

James 3:16-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every
vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a
harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

James 2:23 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was
counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God.

James 1:4-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who
gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him
ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea
that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that
he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in
all his ways.
Philippians 2:3-8 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more

significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests,
but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is
yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count
equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the
form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ...

Romans 1:16-18 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to
everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the
righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The
righteous shall live by faith.” For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their
unrighteousness suppress the truth.

John 14:23-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father
will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever
does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not
mine but the Father's who sent me.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have
loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that
you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 8:7-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who
is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more
he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went
away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with
the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman,
where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And
Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]

Luke 12:19-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years;
relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is
required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is
the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

Luke 10:41-42 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled
about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good
portion, which will not be taken away from her.”

Mark 1:35 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and
went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.

Isaiah 54:10-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love
shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,”
says the LORD, who has compassion on you. “O afflicted one, storm-tossed and
not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your
foundations with sapphires.

Isaiah 46:9-11 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am
God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and
from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I
will accomplish all my purpose,’ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man
of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass; I
have purposed, and I will do it.

Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his
understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who
has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and
young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew
their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and
not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 29:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with
wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”
Proverbs 29:25-26 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe. Many seek
the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.

Proverbs 29:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is
he who keeps the law.

Psalm 101:6 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me;
he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.

Psalm 94:11-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

The LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. Blessed is
the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law,
to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Psalm 39:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

To the choirmaster: to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will guard my

ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle,
so long as the wicked are in my presence.”

1 Kings 3:12-13 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

Behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and
discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you
shall arise after you. I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and
honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.

Exodus 18:18-24 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is
too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. Now obey my voice; I will
give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before
God and bring their cases to God, and you shall warn them about the statutes
and the laws, and make them know the way in which they must walk and what
they must do. Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear
God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the
people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. And let them
judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but
any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and
they will bear the burden with you. ...
Genesis 41:38-40 ESV / 9 helpful votes 

And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is the
Spirit of God?” Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all
this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are. You shall be over my
house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command. Only as
regards the throne will I be greater than you.”

1 John 4:4-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in
you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore
they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God.
Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to
us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

1 John 1:8-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar,
and his word is not in us.

Hebrews 10:38-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no
pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed,
but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 10:21-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

And since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with
a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an
evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the
confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And
let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

1 Thessalonians 5:17-19 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of
God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has

righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with
an unbeliever?

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

John 9:39-41 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see
may see, and those who see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near
him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” Jesus said to
them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We
see,’ your guilt remains.

Mark 9:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who
believes.”

Matthew 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and
behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God
descending like a dove and coming to rest on him; and behold, a voice from
heaven said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

Proverbs 2:6-15 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and

understanding; he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to
those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over
the way of his saints. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and
equity, every good path; for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge
will be pleasant to your soul; ...

Psalm 20:6-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes 

Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy
heaven with the saving might of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and
some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. They collapse
and fall, but we rise and stand upright. O LORD, save the king! May he answer
us when we call.

Numbers 22:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you! Have I now any power of
my own to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I
speak.”

James 1:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

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

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 7 helpful votes 

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or
think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.