Bible Verses About Seeking Knowledge

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

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:

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

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

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

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

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

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

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

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!

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

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?

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.