Proverbs 8:9

“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.

The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

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

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

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.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

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?”

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

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.

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.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.

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?”

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

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.”

“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,

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

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.

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

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

I declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

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

Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

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.

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.”

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

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

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

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.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me your way, now, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight; and consider that this nation is your people.”

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

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

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

The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.

My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

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

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

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

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

Many peoples shall go and say, “Come, let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law shall go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem.

There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.

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.”

The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

Many nations will go and say, “Come! Let’s go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

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.

But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

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,

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

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

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

What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

It will happen that he who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,

In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Why, when I came, was there no one? When I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness. Their fish stink because there is no water, and die of thirst.

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

“Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

(as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

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

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

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.

If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.

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.