- Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
- Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
- He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
- To get wisdom is to love oneself;
to keep understanding is to prosper. - For in much wisdom is much vexation,
and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow. - The clever see danger and hide;
but the simple go on, and suffer for it. - Iron sharpens iron,
and one person sharpens the wits of another. - Happy are those who find wisdom,
and those who get understanding. - Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom.
- Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
- Even fools who keep silent are considered wise;
when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent. - For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
- Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse.
- For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
- A fool despises a parent's instruction,
but the one who heeds admonition is prudent. - And ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love one's neighbor as oneself,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world, as a testimony to all the nations; and then the end will come. Whatever your task, put yourselves into it, as done for the Lord and not for your masters, since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.Next verse!With image