Ecclesiastes 8:1

Wisdom Is Valuable

¹ Who is like the wise person, and who knows the interpretation of a matter? A man’s wisdom brightens his face, and the sternness of his face is changed. ² Keep the king’s command because of your oath made before God.

All Things

Wise Man

Deuteronomy 28:50

a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.

Exodus 34:29-30

As Moses descended from Mount Sinai—with the two tablets of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain—he did not realize that the skin of his face shone as a result of his speaking with the Lord.

Proverbs 4:8-9

Cherish her, and she will exalt you;
if you embrace her, she will honor you.

Acts 6:15

And all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

Genesis 40:8

“We had dreams,” they said to him, “but there is no one to interpret them.”

Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

Genesis 41:15-16

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said about you that you can hear a dream and interpret it.”

Genesis 41:38-39

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit in him?”

Job 33:23

If there is an angel on his side,
one mediator out of a thousand,
to tell a person what is right for him

Proverbs 1:6

for understanding a proverb or a parable,
the words of the wise, and their riddles.

Proverbs 17:24

Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive,
but a fool’s eyes roam to the ends of the earth.

Proverbs 24:5

A wise warrior is better than a strong one,
and a man of knowledge than one of strength;

Ecclesiastes 2:13-14

And I realized that there is an advantage to wisdom over folly, like the advantage of light over darkness.

Daniel 2:28-30

But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has let King Nebuchadnezzar know what will happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay in bed were these:

Daniel 2:47

The king said to Daniel, “Your God is indeed God of gods, Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”

Daniel 4:18-19

This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me the interpretation, because none of the wise men of my kingdom can make the interpretation known to me. But you can, because you have the spirit of the holy gods.”

Matthew 17:2

He was transformed in front of them, and His face shone like the sun. Even His clothes became as white as the light.

Acts 4:13

When they observed the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 4:29

And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness,

1 Corinthians 2:13-16

We also speak these things, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

Ephesians 6:19

Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the proclamation might be fully made through me and all the Gentiles might hear. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.

2 Peter 1:20

First of all, you should know this: No prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation,