The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;
Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.