100 Bible Verses about Knowledge Of God

2 Peter 3:18 ESV / 98 helpful votes

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 97 helpful votes

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Romans 11:33 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Colossians 1:10 ESV / 76 helpful votes

So as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 66 helpful votes

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Colossians 1:9 ESV / 61 helpful votes

And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

James 1:5 ESV / 59 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 54 helpful votes

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

2 Peter 1:2-3 ESV / 51 helpful votes

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Psalm 19:2 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

Psalm 119:66 ESV / 41 helpful votes

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 15:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes

The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Colossians 2:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

James 3:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 17:3 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

Proverbs 2:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Proverbs 1:5 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 32 helpful votes

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

Ecclesiastes 1:18 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

1 Corinthians 12:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 8:10 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,

Romans 1:20 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Romans 1:18-21 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Isaiah 11:9 ESV / 29 helpful votes

They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Peter 1:5-7 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

1 Corinthians 15:34 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Romans 3:20 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

Proverbs 20:15 ESV / 28 helpful votes

There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

Psalm 19:1-2 ESV / 28 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

John 1:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Proverbs 1:29 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 1:1-7:27 ESV / 27 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

Ephesians 1:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

John 6:44 ESV / 26 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Amos 5:4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;

Proverbs 2:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Romans 8:7-8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Acts 17:30 ESV / 23 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Daniel 12:4 ESV / 23 helpful votes

But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

James 3:3 ESV / 22 helpful votes

If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

1 Corinthians 13:2-3 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Romans 11:2 ESV / 22 helpful votes

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?

John 8:32 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Hosea 4:6-7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.

Proverbs 9:10-12 ESV / 22 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

Proverbs 2:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 21 helpful votes

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ...

Proverbs 1:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

James 4:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 3:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

John 3:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Romans 16:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes

For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 19 helpful votes

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Job 28:28 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

1 Kings 3:9 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”

Hosea 6:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Genesis 3:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

James 1:27 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Colossians 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 2:1-22 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— ...

Acts 17:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

1 Corinthians 2:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

Isaiah 45:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

Psalm 90:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Romans 10:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

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