Scriptures

Deuteronomy 4:5-6 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples . . .

Psalm 19:7  . . . The Lord’s testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

Psalm 119:24 Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

Psalm 119:98-100 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

Psalm 119:104-105 Through your precepts, I get understanding . . . Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Psalm 119:130 The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Proverbs 1:1-5 The proverbs of Solomon . . . to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding . . . to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man: that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning . . .

Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you; So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected the Lord’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Matthew 7:24 Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Romans 15:4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning . . .

2 Timothy 3:15-17 From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.