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Proverbs 15:14
The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly. (niv)
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Proverbs 9:9
Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still; teach the righteous and they will add to their learning. (niv)
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Psalms 119:97-104
Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. (niv)
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1 Kings 3 9
So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?” (niv)
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Proverbs 4:7
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. (niv)
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Luke 10:39
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. (niv)
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James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. (niv)
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Proverbs 1:5
let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance— (niv)
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Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth and do not sell it— wisdom, instruction and insight as well. (niv)
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Proverbs 10:14
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin. (niv)
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Luke 8:8-10
Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up and yielded a crop, a hundred times more than was sown.” When he said this, he called out,“ Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”His disciples asked him what this parable meant.He said,“ The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,“‘ though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not understand.’ (niv)
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Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them. (niv)
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2 Timothy 3 15-2 Timothy 3 17
and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (niv)