Bible Verses about 'Being understanding'
- Blessed are those who find wisdom,
those who gain understanding. - For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. - Fools find no pleasure in understanding
but delight in airing their own opinions. - The one who gets wisdom loves life;
the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper. - The unfolding of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to the simple. - Whoever is patient has great understanding,
but one who is quick-tempered displays folly. - Get wisdom, get understanding;
do not forget my words or turn away from them. - The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom.
Though it cost all you have, get understanding. - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. - We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all who follow his precepts have good understanding.
To him belongs eternal praise. - Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
- Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom. - How much better to get wisdom than gold,
to get insight rather than silver! - Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight. - To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- My goal is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ.
- Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
- “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.” (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
- For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
- Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
- Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross! - Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
- For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
- ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
- Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
- Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name. - I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.
- I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.
- Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
do not trust your own cleverness. - I will sing to the Lord all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. - Let love and faithfulness never leave you;
bind them around your neck,
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Then you will win favor and a good name
in the sight of God and man. - Surely no one can stand in the way of their being baptized with water. They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have.
- Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
- And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
- Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
- Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
- Can a man walk on hot coals
without his feet being scorched? - Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
- Houses and wealth are inherited from parents,
but a prudent wife is from the Lord. - I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,
and in his word I put my hope. - Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent,
and discerning if they hold their tongues. - The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
- When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone.
- For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
- For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well. - May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.
- For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position. But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 
