Proverbs 1:2

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

“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.

It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.

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?”

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Those who feared Yahweh’s word among the servants of Pharaoh made their servants and their livestock flee into the houses.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

Man doesn’t know its price; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

Gold and glass can’t equal it, neither will it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

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

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

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

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.