Bible Verses About Knowledge of Good and Evil

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.