31 Bible Verses about Insight

Think what I mean! The Lord will help you to understand perfectly.

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. "Thus," he said, "it is written that the Christ has to suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and the remission of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Then he began with Moses and all the prophets and interpreted to them the passages referring to himself throughout the scriptures.

Then they realized that what he told them to beware of was not leaven but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

No, as it is written, what no eye has ever seen, what no ear has ever heard, what never entered the mind of man, God has prepared all that for those who love him. And God has revealed it to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit fathoms everything, even the depths of God. What human being can understand the thoughts of a man, except the man's own inner spirit? So too no one understands the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God.read more.
Now we have received the Spirit ??not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may understand what God bestows upon us. And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.

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The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

Sage, scribe, critic of this world, where are they all? Has not God stultified the wisdom of the world? For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

May their hearts be encouraged! May they learn the meaning of love! May they have all the wealth of conviction that comes from insight! May they learn to know that open secret of God, the Father of Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden!

I have still much to say to you, but you cannot bear it just now. However, when the Spirit of truth comes, he will lead you into all the truth; for he will not speak of his own accord, he will say whatever he is told, and he will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify me, for he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.read more.
All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.'

illuminating the eyes of your heart so that you can understand the hope to which He calls us, the wealth of his glorious heritage in the saints, and the surpassing greatness of his power over us believers ??a power which operates with the strength of the might

Then Peter opened his lips and said, "I see quite plainly that God has no favourites, but that he who reverences Him and lives a good life in any nation is welcomed by Him.

how the divine secret was disclosed to me by a revelation (if you read what I have already written briefly about this, you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ which was not disclosed to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his sacred apostles and prophets by the Spirit),read more.
namely, that in Christ Jesus the Gentiles are co-heirs, companions, and co-partners in the Promise.

Now for the gift of interpretation! Let the discerning calculate the cipher of the Beast; it is the cipher of a man, and the figures are six hundred and sixty-six.

And it is my prayer that your love may be more and more rich in knowledge and all manner of insight, enabling you to have a sense of what is vital, so that you may be transparent and no harm to anyone in view of the day of Christ, your life covered with that harvest of righteousness which Jesus Christ produces to the glory and the praise of God.

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight, so that you may lead a life that is worthy of the Lord and give him entire satisfaction. May you be fruitful and increase in the doing of all good, as you thus know God!

Some scribes said to themselves, "The man is talking blasphemy!" Jesus saw what they were thinking and said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?

Now there were some scribes sitting there who argued in their hearts, "What does the man mean by talking like this? It is blasphemy! Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?" Conscious at once that they were arguing to themselves in this way, Jesus asked them, "Why do you argue thus in your hearts?

Then the scribes and Pharisees began to argue, "Who is this blasphemer? Who can forgive sins, who but God alone?" Conscious that they were arguing to themselves, Jesus addressed them, saying, "Why argue in your hearts?

"Sir," said the woman, "I see you are a prophet.

Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.

Jesus answered them, "You go wrong because you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

Jesus said to them, "Is this not where you go wrong? ??you understand neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

Do you not understand even yet? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? And the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? Why do you not see that I was not speaking to you about bread? No, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

He noted this and said to them, "Why do you argue you have no bread? Do you not see, do you not understand, even yet? Are you still dull of heart? You have eyes, do you not see? you have ears, do you not hear? Do you not remember how many baskets full of fragments you picked up when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand?" They said, "Twelve."read more.
"And how many basketfuls of fragments did you pick up when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand?" They said, "Seven." "Do you not understand now?" he said.

Peter took him and began to reprove him for it; "God forbid, Lord," he said, "This must not be."

he spoke of this quite freely. Peter took him and began to reprove him for it,

He said to them, "O foolish men, with hearts so slow to believe, after all the prophets have declared!

Jesus replied, "You do not understand this? ??you, a teacher in Israel!

she ran off to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the favourite of Jesus, telling them, "They have taken the master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!"