86 Bible Verses about Wisdom, Human Importance

The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold. For wisdom is better than jewels, and all things which may be desired are nothing in comparison with her.

Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.

Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.

So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

And those who are wise will be shining like the light of the outstretched sky; and those by whom numbers have been turned to righteousness will be like the stars for ever and ever.

Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart: For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man. He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:

For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.

Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason: He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil; He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.read more.
Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way. For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul; Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.

Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.

To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.

For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit, Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true. This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.read more.
But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband. And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took their lights, took no oil with them.read more.
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lights. Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep. But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him. Then all those virgins got up, and made ready their lights. And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lights are going out. But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves. And while they went to get oil, the master came; and those who were ready went in with him to the feast: and the door was shut.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions. Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.

Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.

Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth.

To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him.

Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.

Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?

The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?

And the Lord said, Who then is the wise and responsible servant whom his lord will put in control of his family, to give them their food at the right time?

I say this to put you to shame. Is there not among you one wise man who may be able to give a decision between his brothers?

From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.

Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?

The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.

Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.

And those who are wise among the people will be the teachers of the mass of the people: but they will come to their downfall by the sword and by the flame, being made prisoners and undergoing loss for a long time.

But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing: But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;

Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.

Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had put his hands on him: and the children of Israel gave ear to him, and did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

This he did, hoping that the face of this business might be changed: and my lord is wise, with the wisdom of the angel of God, having knowledge of everything on earth.

So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.

Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king; And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house. And three days after the birth of my child, this woman had a child: we were together, no other-person was with us in the house but we two only.read more.
In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death. And she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was sleeping; and she took it in her arms and put her dead child in my arms. And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son. And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king. Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living. Then he said, Get me a sword. So they went and put a sword before the king. And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other. Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two. Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it. And news of this decision which the king had made went through all Israel; and they had fear of the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to give decisions.