Job 12:13

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

“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.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

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

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

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?”

Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.

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.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

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?”

God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him and prospered?

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

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

Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

I call a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. Yes, I have spoken. I will also bring it to pass. I have planned. I will also do it.

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

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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.

“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

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

Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Blessed be Yahweh’s name, from this time forward and forever more.

Whatever Yahweh pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.

Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.

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

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar. Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

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.

for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what you must say.”

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

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.

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.

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.

“Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

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

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

God has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens.

Daniel answered, “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

“For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

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

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.