44 Bible Verses about Understanding

Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.

but that (as it is written) They should see who never had learned about him, and they who had never heard of him should understand.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us insight to know Him who is the Real God; and we are in Him who is real, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the real God, this is life eternal.

but if I am, then believe the deeds, though you will not believe me ??that you may learn and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

So do not be senseless, but understand what is the Lord's will;

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 when you see the appalling Horror spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing erect in the holy place (let the reader note this),

But whenever you see the appalling Horror standing where he has no right to stand (let the reader note this), then let those who are in Judaea fly to the hills;

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

When Philip ran up, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah. "Do you really understand what you are reading?" he asked. "Why, how can I possibly understand it," said the eunuch, "unless some one puts me on the right track?" And he begged Philip to get up and sit beside him.

(His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered this had been written of him and had happened to him.)

He replied, "Because it is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Realm of heaven, but it is not granted to these people.

and he said to them: "The open secret of the Realm of God is granted to you, but these outsiders get everything by way of parables,

so he said, "It is granted you to understand the open secrets of the Reign of God, but the others get it in parables, so that for all their seeing they may not see, and for all their hearing they may not understand.

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

Then the disciples realized he was speaking to them about John the Baptist.

In many a parable like this he spoke the word to them, so far as they could listen to it;

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?

and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

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 then you know what this Crisis means, you know it is high time to waken up; for Salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.

He has granted us complete insight and understanding of the open secret of his will, showing us how it was the purpose of his design

you can understand my insight into that secret of Christ

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,

At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood.

It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.

When Jesus noted this he said, "How little trust you have in me! Why all this talk, because you have brought no bread? Do you not understand even yet? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

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.

but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.

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. All that the Father has is mine; that is why I say, 'he will draw upon what is mine and disclose it to you.'

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.

May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself,