Understanding
Exodus 31:3 "And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
Exodus 36:1 "And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the Lord has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the Lord has commanded.''
Deuteronomy 1:13 `Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.'
Deuteronomy 4:6 "Therefore be careful to observe them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, `Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
1 Kings 3:9 "Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?''
1 Kings 3:11 Then God said to him: "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice,
1 Kings 3:12 "behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you.
1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore.
1 Chronicles 22:12 "Only may the Lord give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge concerning Israel, that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.
2 Chronicles 26:5 He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
Job 12:12 Wisdom is with aged men, and with length of days, understanding.
Job 12:13 "With Him are wisdom and strength, He has counsel and understanding.
Job 17:4 For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
Job 18:2 "How long till you put an end to words? Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak.
Job 20:3 I have heard the reproof that reproaches me, and the spirit of my understanding causes me to answer.
Job 26:12 He stirs up the sea with His power, and by His understanding He breaks up the storm.
Job 28:12 "But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:28 And to man He said, `Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.' ''
Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding.
Job 34:10 "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to commit iniquity.
Job 34:16 "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to the sound of my words:
Job 34:34 "Men of understanding say to me, wise men who listen to me:
Job 36:5 "Behold, God is mighty, but despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Job 38:4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Job 38:36 Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart?
Psalms 32:9 Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you.
Psalms 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.
Psalms 49:3 My mouth shall speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart shall bring understanding.
Psalms 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.
Psalms 119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
Psalms 119:73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
Psalms 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:125 I am Your servant; Give me understanding, That I may know Your testimonies.
Psalms 119:130 The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
Psalms 119:144 The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting; Give me understanding, and I shall live.
Psalms 119:169 Let my cry come before You, O Lord; Give me understanding according to Your word.
Psalms 147:5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.
Proverbs 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding,
Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
Proverbs 2:2 so that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
- Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy 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.
- For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
- He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
- He guards the paths of justice, and preserves the way of His saints.
- Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
- When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
- discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you,
- to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things,
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
Proverbs 3:13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding;
Proverbs 3:19 The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding He established the heavens;
Proverbs 4:1 Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding;
Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.
Proverbs 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; lend your ear to my understanding,
- that you may preserve discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
Proverbs 6:32 Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does so destroys his own soul.
Proverbs 7:4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,'' and call understanding your nearest kin,
Proverbs 8:1 Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice?
Proverbs 8:5 O you simple ones, understand prudence, and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
Proverbs 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.
Proverbs 9:6 Forsake foolishness and live, and go in the way of understanding.
Proverbs 9:10 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 10:13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has understanding, but a rod is for the back of him who is devoid of understanding.
Proverbs 10:23 To do evil is like sport to a fool, but a man of understanding has wisdom.
Proverbs 11:12 He who is devoid of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Proverbs 12:11 He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows frivolity is devoid of understanding.
Proverbs 13:15 Good understanding gains favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Proverbs 14:29 He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, but he who is impulsive exalts folly.
Proverbs 14:33 Wisdom rests quietly in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.
Proverbs 15:14 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
Proverbs 15:21 Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment, but a man of understanding walks uprightly.
Proverbs 15:32 He who disdains instruction despises his own soul, but he who heeds reproof gets understanding.
Proverbs 16:16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it. but the correction of fools is folly.
Proverbs 17:18 A man devoid of understanding shakes hands in a pledge, and becomes surety for his friend.
Proverbs 17:24 Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Proverbs 17:27 He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.
Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.
Proverbs 19:8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will find good.
Proverbs 19:25 Strike a scoffer, and the simple will become wary; reprove one who has understanding, and he will discern knowledge.
Proverbs 20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs 21:16 A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the congregation of the dead.
- A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he establishes his way.
- There is no wisdom or understanding or counsel against the Lord.
Proverbs 23:4 Do not overwork to be rich; because of your own understanding, cease!
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Proverbs 24:30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man devoid of understanding;
Proverbs 28:2 Because of the transgression of a land, many are its princes; but by a man of understanding and knowledge right will be prolonged.
Proverbs 28:11 The rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor who has understanding searches him out.
Proverbs 28:16 A ruler who lacks understanding is a great oppressor, but he who hates covetousness will prolong his days.
Isaiah 11:2 The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
Isaiah 27:11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off; the women come and set them on fire. For it is a people of no understanding; therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
Isaiah 29:14 Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.''
Isaiah 29:16 Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; for shall the thing made say of him who made it, "He did not make me''? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding''?
Isaiah 29:24 These also who erred in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmured will learn doctrine.''
Isaiah 40:14 With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of justice? Who taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. There is no searching of His understanding.
Isaiah 44:19 And no one considers in his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, "I have burned half of it in the fire, yes, I have also baked bread on its coals; I have roasted meat and eaten it; and shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?''
Jeremiah 3:15 "And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Jeremiah 4:22 "For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are silly children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.''
Jeremiah 5:21 `Hear this now, O foolish people, without understanding, who have eyes and see not, and who have ears and hear not:
Jeremiah 51:15 He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heaven by His understanding.
Daniel 1:17 As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Daniel 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm.
Daniel 2:21 And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding.
Daniel 4:34 And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation.
Daniel 5:11 "There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father your father the king made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.
Daniel 5:12 "Inasmuch as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles, and explaining enigmas were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar, now let Daniel be called, and he will give the interpretation.''
Daniel 5:14 "I have heard of you, that the Spirit of God is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
Luke 2:47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.
Luke 24:45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
1 Corinthians 1:19 For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.''
Ephesians 1:18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Ephesians 4:18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
Philippians 4:7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Colossians 1:9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Colossians 2:2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,
1 Timothy 1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.
2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
James 3:13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom.
1 Peter 3:7 Likewise you husbands, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.