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• Proverbs 3:21

  My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

• Proverbs 2:6

  For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

• 1 Corinthians 15:33

  Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

• James 1:22–25

  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. …

• Proverbs 28:26

  He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

• Proverbs 9:10

  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

• Proverbs 9:12

  If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

• Proverbs 16:22

  Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

• Proverbs 10:13

  In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

• Proverbs 27:12

  A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

• 1 John 5:20

  And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

• 1 Corinthians 6:19

  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

• Romans 2:15

  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

• Proverbs 3:5

  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

• Proverbs 13:14–16

  The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard. Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

• Luke 10:16

  He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

• Proverbs 23:4–5

  Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

• Psalms 32:9

  Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

• 1 Corinthians 14:1–40

  Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. …

• 2 Corinthians 6:15

  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

• Proverbs 20:15

  There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

• Proverbs 15:31

  The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

• Philippians 4:13

  I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

• John 5:24

  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

• 2 Timothy 1:7

  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

• Joshua 1:8

  This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

• John 6:47

  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

• Proverbs 3:13

  Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

• Proverbs 8:5

  O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.