100 Bible Verses About Knowledge

Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

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

The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:

Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.

Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

The children of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites: of Haggi, the family of the Haggites: of Shuni, the family of the Shunites:

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;

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.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.

And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.

And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

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

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

And from Heshbon unto Ramath–mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,

The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

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.

Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.