145 Bible Verses about Understanding
Want to know what the Bible says about Understanding? Here are 145 Bible verses about Understanding from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Proverbs 18:2 NIV
Fools find no pleasure in understanding
but delight in airing their own opinions.
but delight in airing their own opinions.
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Psalm 119:130 NIV
The unfolding of your words gives light;
it gives understanding to the simple.
it gives understanding to the simple.
397
Proverbs 14:29 NIV
Whoever is patient has great understanding,
but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
385
Proverbs 2:2-5 NIV
2 turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding —
3 indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
and applying your heart to understanding —
3 indeed, if you call out for insight
and cry aloud for understanding,
4 and if you look for it as for silver
and search for it as for hidden treasure,
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
348
Proverbs 17:27 NIV
The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint,
and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.
268
Proverbs 3:5 NIV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
and lean not on your own understanding;
247
Colossians 4:6 NIV
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
242
Proverbs 4:7 NIV
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom.
Though it cost all you have, get understanding.
Though it cost all you have, get understanding.
169
Proverbs 20:5 NIV
The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters,
but one who has insight draws them out.
but one who has insight draws them out.
125
James 1:2-4 NIV
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
113
2 Timothy 2:7 NIV
Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.
112
Matthew 6:33 NIV
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
95
Job 28:28 NIV
And he said to the human race,
“The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom,
and to shun evil is understanding.”
“The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom,
and to shun evil is understanding.”
90
Philippians 4:19 NIV
And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
83
1 Corinthians 2:12 NIV
What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
72
Ephesians 4:18 NIV
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
71
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Jeremiah 9:23-24 NIV
23 This is what the Lord says:
“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom
or the strong boast of their strength
or the rich boast of their riches,
24 but let the one who boasts boast about this:or the strong boast of their strength
or the rich boast of their riches,
that they have the understanding to know me,
that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,”
declares the Lord.
63
Psalm 119:34 NIV
Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law
and obey it with all my heart.
and obey it with all my heart.
59
Philippians 4:7 NIV
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
54
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