Bible Verses about 'Wise'
- Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools suffers harm. - Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise.
- My child, if your heart is wise,
my heart too will be glad. - A fool gives full vent to anger,
but the wise quietly holds it back. - The wise of heart will heed commandments,
but a babbling fool will come to ruin. - A wise child makes a glad father,
but a foolish child is a mother's grief. - Words spoken by the wise bring them favor,
but the lips of fools consume them. - The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice;
he who begets a wise son will be glad in him. - Even fools who keep silent are considered wise;
when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent. - The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul;
the decrees of the Lord are sure,
making wise the simple. - 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.
- Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil.
- Do not be wise in your own eyes;
fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
It will be a healing for your flesh
and a refreshment for your body. - Those who are wise understand these things;
those who are discerning know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the upright walk in them,
but transgressors stumble in them. - Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
be wise enough to desist. - Many shall be purified, cleansed, and refined, but the wicked shall continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
- So teach us to count our days
that we may gain a wise heart. - In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.”
- Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are.
- When words are many, transgression is not lacking,
but the prudent are restrained in speech. - Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. - To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
- By insolence the heedless make strife,
but wisdom is with those who take advice. - Fools show their anger at once,
but the prudent ignore an insult. - Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you. - A fool despises a parent's instruction,
but the one who heeds admonition is prudent. - Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
- For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one letter, not one stroke of a letter, will pass from the law until all is accomplished.
- Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
- You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
- You shall not abuse any widow or orphan. If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry; my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.
- Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?” When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.
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