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Want to know what the Bible says about Common Sense? Here are 23 Bible verses about Common Sense 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 3:21 NIV
My son, do not let wisdom and understanding out of your sight,
    preserve sound judgment and discretion;
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Proverbs 2:6 NIV
For the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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James 1:22-25 NIV
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
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Proverbs 9:10 NIV
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
    and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
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Proverbs 28:26 NIV
Those who trust in themselves are fools,
    but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.
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Proverbs 9:12 NIV
If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you;
    if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
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Proverbs 16:22 NIV
Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent,
    but folly brings punishment to fools.
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1 John 5:20 NIV
We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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Proverbs 10:13 NIV
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning,
    but a rod is for the back of one who has no sense.
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Proverbs 27:12 NIV
The prudent see danger and take refuge,
    but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
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1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV
Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
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Romans 2:15 NIV
They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.)
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Psalm 32:9 NIV
Do not be like the horse or the mule,
    which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle
    or they will not come to you.
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Proverbs 13:14-16 NIV
14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
    turning a person from the snares of death.
15 Good judgment wins favor,
    but the way of the unfaithful leads to their destruction.
16 All who are prudent act with knowledge,
    but fools expose their folly.
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2 Corinthians 6:15 NIV
What harmony is there between Christ and Belial ? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
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Luke 10:16 NIV
“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
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1 Corinthians 6:18 NIV
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
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Proverbs 15:31 NIV
Whoever heeds life-giving correction
    will be at home among the wise.
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Proverbs 23:4-5 NIV
4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
    do not trust your own cleverness.
5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
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