1 Kings 4:29

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”

They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

They will cut down her forest,” says Yahweh, “though it can’t be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

However I didn’t believe the words until I came and my eyes had seen it. Behold, not even half was told me! Your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.

All the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

But if you don’t make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for you have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, until the situation changes. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can show me its interpretation.”

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings, and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.

Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king; for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.

Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty together.

Solomon answered all her questions. There wasn’t anything hidden from Solomon which he didn’t tell her.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the hearts of kings are unsearchable.

I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, someone greater than Solomon is here.