18 Bible Verses about Acquiring Wisdom
Most Relevant Verses
The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! With all [that is in] your possession, gain insight.
Get wisdom and insight; do not forget and do not turn from the sayings of my mouth.
Buy truth and do not sell [it], wisdom and instruction and understanding.
If only they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern {for themselves their end}.
Happy [is] {the one} who finds wisdom, and one who obtains understanding.
Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "{intimate friend}."
[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.
And he will go on before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to prepare for the Lord a people made ready."
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, [and] spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God,
I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth--how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep.
