Romans 3:11

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

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

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.”

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

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

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with Yahweh.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

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.”

When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses, chariots, and a people more numerous than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints, even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!

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

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land. I have bereaved them of children. I have destroyed my people. They didn’t return from their ways.

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.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

But, as it is written, “They will see, to whom no news of him came. They who haven’t heard will understand.”

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

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

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

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

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

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

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

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

Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Then the local governors, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counselors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

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

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.