11 Bible Verses About Wisdom from Above

11 Bible verses about Wisdom from Above to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.

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01 James 3:17 Key verse

But the wisdom from above is, first of all, pure. It also makes for peace; it is gentle and willing to yield; it is full of mercy and of good fruits; it plays no favorites, and it is free of pretense.

02 James 1:5

If any of you is short of wisdom, ask God, who gives to everyone with an open hand and without scolding, and it will be given to you.

03 1 Corinthians 1:25

For the foolish thing God has done is wiser than any human wisdom, and the weak thing God has done is stronger than any human strength.

04 Proverbs 2:6

For it is the LORD who gives wisdom; knowledge and understanding come from his mouth.

05 Colossians 1:9

That is why, from the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will, with all the wisdom and understanding the Spirit gives,

06 1 Corinthians 1:30

It is God who has placed you in Christ Jesus, and he has become God’s wisdom for us, which means our righteousness, our holiness and our redemption.

07 Daniel 2:20-21

Daniel said: “Blessed be the name of God from age to age, for wisdom and power belong to him. He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and installs kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those with insight.

08 Ephesians 1:17

asking the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, to give you the Spirit who brings wisdom and revelation as you come to know him.

09 Proverbs 8:22-23

The LORD brought me into being as the first of his ways, before his works of long ago. Long ages ago I was set in place, at the very first, before the earth began.

10 1 Corinthians 2:6-7

There is a wisdom we speak, all the same, among those who are mature. It is not the wisdom of this present age, nor of its rulers, whose power is already being brought to an end. Instead, the wisdom we speak is God’s own, a mystery that has been kept hidden. God planned it before the ages for our glory.

11 Job 28:23-28

God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place. For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. When he gave the wind its weight and measured out the waters, when he made a law for the rain and a path for the thunder and lightning, then he saw wisdom and appraised it; he set it in place and searched it through. And he said to humankind, “Look, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.”

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