Speaking of Wisdom

May 11

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here is a list of scripture verses that speak of wisdom:

Proverbs 12:15 - The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.

Proverbs 11:14 - Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is]safety.

Proverbs 19:20-21 - Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter years.

2 Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Psalms 1:1-6 - Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

Psalms 119:105 – Your word, O God, is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 4:13 - Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.

Proverbs 20:18 - Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Proverbs 13:10 - Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

1 Kings 12:6-19 - And King Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do you advise that I may answer this people?

Proverbs 3:1-35 - My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Proverbs 15:22 - Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Psalms 33:10-22 - The LORD brings the counsel of the heathen to notjomg;: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.

2 Timothy 2:15 - Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Romans 13:1 - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Proverbs 15:24 - The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Isaiah 11:2 - And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;

Proverbs 28:26 - He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.

This extensive, but far from complete list, evidences the value the Lord places upon wisdom. If our God, who is all wise and all knowing, and totally omniscient esteems understanding so highly, should not we, frail grasshoppers that we are (see Isaiah 40:22) endeavor to lay aside the foolishness of our own hearts and take to ourselves the eternal wisdom of the Holy One!