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100 Bible Verses about Worldly Wisdom

James 1:5 ESV / 246 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.

James 3:17 ESV / 214 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.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 186 helpful votes

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 173 helpful votes

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

Psalm 111:10 ESV / 168 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!

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 141 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 138 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 135 helpful votes

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

James 3:15 ESV / 132 helpful votes

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

James 3:13 ESV / 132 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 130 helpful votes

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

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 125 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 109 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 105 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. ...

Romans 12:2 ESV / 105 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Job 5:13 ESV / 100 helpful votes

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 99 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, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Proverbs 4:7 ESV / 99 helpful votes

The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 93 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

1 Corinthians 2:6 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

1 Corinthians 1:20 ESV / 92 helpful votes

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Colossians 4:5-6 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 90 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

James 4:4 ESV / 88 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Proverbs 21:30 ESV / 87 helpful votes

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:19-20 ESV / 82 helpful votes

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 14:8 ESV / 79 helpful votes

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 76 helpful votes

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Romans 11:33 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 73 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.

Psalm 37:30 ESV / 71 helpful votes

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

2 Samuel 15:31 ESV / 71 helpful votes

And it was told David, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” And David said, “O Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 70 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 17:28 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 67 helpful votes

So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

John 3:16 ESV / 67 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.

2 Corinthians 1:12 ESV / 66 helpful votes

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 66 helpful votes

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

John 14:6 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Job 12:12 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 59 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 ESV / 57 helpful votes

A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

James 3:3 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 52 helpful votes

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

John 10:10 ESV / 51 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 48 helpful votes

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...

John 8:32 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 48 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.

1 Corinthians 3:18-20 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,” and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

Job 28:28 ESV / 47 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 Corinthians 3:1-3 ESV / 46 helpful votes

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

Romans 1:22-25 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 46 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Colossians 2:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:15 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Psalm 104:24 ESV / 43 helpful votes

O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.

1 Timothy 6:20-21 ESV / 41 helpful votes

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.

1 Corinthians 3:20 ESV / 41 helpful votes

And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 John 5:19 ESV / 39 helpful votes

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

1 Corinthians 3:10 ESV / 37 helpful votes

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Titus 2:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 34 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 4:23 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Ecclesiastes 8:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

John 8:12 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 31 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

John 16:33 ESV / 31 helpful votes

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Romans 8:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Luke 16:15 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

John 3:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 28 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Psalm 23:1 ESV / 28 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Luke 21:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 25 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

John 14:27 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Matthew 22:37 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

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