Proverbs 28:5

Modern English Version

Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Cross References

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts.

Psalm 119:98

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

Psalm 25:14

The secret counsel of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will make His covenant known to them.

Psalm 92:6

A brutish man does not know, nor does a fool understand this:

Proverbs 15:24

The way of life leads upward for the wise, that he may depart from Sheol below.

Proverbs 2:9

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too lofty for a fool; he opens not his mouth in the gate.

Isaiah 1:3

the ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib, but Israel does not know; My people do not consider.

Isaiah 44:18

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 6:9

He said, “Go, and tell this people: ‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.

John 7:17

If any man desires to do His will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

James 1:5

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

1 John 2:20

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

1 John 2:27

But the anointing which you have received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. For as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and just as it has taught you, remain in Him.