1 Kings 3:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Give your servant, therefore, an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil, for who can govern this great people of yours?”

Cross References

James 1:5

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

John 5:30

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

2 Samuel 14:17

Your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest,’ for my lord the king is like the angel of God, discerning good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”

1 Chronicles 22:12

Only, may the Lord grant you discretion and understanding, so that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Psalm 119:144

Your decrees are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.

Psalm 119:34

Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are qualified of ourselves to claim anything as coming from us; our qualification is from God,

Matthew 3:14

John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

Proverbs 20:12

The hearing ear and the seeing eye— the Lord has made them both.

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of yours?”

1 Chronicles 29:19

Grant to my son Solomon that with single mind he may keep your commandments, your decrees, and your statutes, performing all of them, and that he may build the temple for which I have made provision.”

Philippians 1:10

to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless,

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the one group a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life. Who is qualified for these things?

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives strength to the wise more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Jeremiah 1:6

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.”

Proverbs 14:8

It is the wisdom of the clever to understand where they go, but the folly of fools misleads.

Psalm 119:73

Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

1 Kings 3:28

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 execute justice.

1 Kings 3:10

It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.

1 Kings 10:24

The whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.

Jeremiah 45:5

And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them, for I am going to bring disaster upon all flesh, says the Lord, but I will give you your life as a prize of war in every place to which you may go.”

Daniel 2:21

He changes times and seasons, deposes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.