Proverbs 2:6

“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.

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

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.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

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

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

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?

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

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.

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.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

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.

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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,

They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all will know me, from their least to their greatest.

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

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

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.

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

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.

He said, “For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.”

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

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’ ” then he says,

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

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.

God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.

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

He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

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

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

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

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

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.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

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

All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

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.

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

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

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?”

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

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

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

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

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?

You shall speak to all who are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

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

God gave Solomon abundant wisdom and understanding, and very great understanding, even as the sand that is on the seashore.

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

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.

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

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, for Elnathan, for Jarib, for Elnathan, for Nathan, for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib and for Elnathan, who were teachers.

Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

“God understands its way, and he knows its place.

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

Yahweh’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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

He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows.

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

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.

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.

I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter.”

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

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

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.