Proverbs 28:5

New International Version

Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Cross References

Psalm 119:100

I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

Psalm 119:98

Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.

Psalm 25:14

The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.

Psalm 92:6

Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the prudent to keep them from going down to the realm of the dead.

Proverbs 2:9

Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is too high for fools; in the assembly at the gate they must not open their mouths.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Isaiah 44:18

They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.

Isaiah 6:9

He said, “Go and tell this people: “ ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

John 7:17

Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

1 John 2:20

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

1 John 2:27

As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.