Proverbs 28:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Cross References

Psalm 119:100

I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

Psalm 119:98

Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me.

Psalm 25:14

The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes his covenant known to them.

Psalm 92:6

The dullard cannot know; the stupid cannot understand this:

Proverbs 15:24

For the wise the path of life leads upward, in order to avoid Sheol below.

Proverbs 2:9

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

Proverbs 24:7

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

Isaiah 1:3

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

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know, nor do they comprehend, for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 6:9

And he said, “Go and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend; keep looking, but do not understand.’

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

John 7:17

Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

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.

1 John 2:20

But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and all of you have knowledge.

1 John 2:27

As for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you, so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in him.