Judges 20:7

“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.

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

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

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?”

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.

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?”

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

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

He shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Yahweh. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

Therefore keep the words of this covenant and do them, that you may prosper in all that you do.

It was so, that all who saw it said, “Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak.”

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.

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’ ”

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

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

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.

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.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”

“But where will wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

It is like yeast, which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, until it was all leavened.”

Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

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

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

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,

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:

‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

The people came to Bethel and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

David inquired of Yahweh, saying, “If I pursue after this troop, will I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue; for you will surely overtake them, and will without fail recover all.”

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

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

yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”

The men sampled their provisions, and didn’t ask counsel from Yahweh’s mouth.

The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.

The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.”

Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

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.