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111 Bible verses about asking for Wisdom
Think about it: asking God for wisdom is way more valuable than asking for riches. It's through wisdom that you come up with great strategies that can lead you to a truly successful life.
Not only that, but you become someone who can really help others – with timely advice, constructive feedback, and by contributing ideas and projects that can bless everyone around you. Wisdom is that good judgment you develop from experience, observation, and reflection.
King Solomon asked God for wisdom and became known as the wisest man on earth. God was pleased with Solomon because he didn't focus on material wealth, but on filling his spirit with the knowledge of God's glory. Someone who is wise enjoys a virtue that not many have. In God, wisdom is the infinite and perfect understanding of everything that is or could be. It's a gift from God that He wants everyone to ask for, just like it says in James 1:5.
God wants you to be filled with wisdom. It'll guide you every day, help you make good decisions, and keep you from falling into foolishness and getting swept away by the world. God is the source of wisdom, just as He is the source of power, and through the fear of the Lord, wisdom is given.
The Holy Spirit wants you to achieve your goals, fulfilling His will at all times, without rejecting God's word. Be careful how you live, not as a fool but as a wise person, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:15-16). Wisdom shows in your actions; when a wise person does or says something, it's because they know it's right.
Draw near to God in prayer so His spirit can be upon you, filling you with wisdom. That way, you'll know that everything you do is guided by Him, and you'll become a prudent person, able to bless the lives of those who need wisdom. Ask God, and He will give abundantly, not just for your own benefit, but to give light to those in darkness and guide those who are lost.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
And the spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
And he changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
However, 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 naught:But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world to our glory:
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Walk in wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another, the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold? and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?
Trust in the LORD with all thy heart; and lean not to thy own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.
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.
For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellence of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.And Solomon said, Thou hast shown to thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.Give therefore to thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
For God giveth to a man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather, and to amass, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth to counsel is wise.
And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Show me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ;
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
Understanding is a well-spring of life to him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
That their hearts may be comforted, being knit together in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you:For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, the door shall be opened.
And I myself also am persuaded concerning you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
My son, let not them depart from thy eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:So shall they be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yes, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Bow down thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
For your obedience is come abroad to all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Many, O LORD, my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul;Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth my ear to hear as the learned.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness,
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think on these things.
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
If the iron is blunt, and he doth not whet the edge, then must he use more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in operation.
Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed to it, according to thy word.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called;
For to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints, according to the will of God.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it to the end.Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yes, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
But strong food belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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.
If any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him.
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of ingenious inventions.
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.