Bible Verses About Understanding

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

So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

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

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

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.

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding, and is even made known in the inward part of fools.

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

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

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,

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.