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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Exodus 4:11, 12

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD? / Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Exodus 8:9, 10

Moses said to Pharaoh, “You may have the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and your officials and your people that the frogs (except for those in the Nile) may be taken away from you and your houses?” / “Tomorrow,” Pharaoh answered. “May it be as you say,” Moses replied, “so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Deuteronomy 4:5, 6, 35, 36

See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess. / Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” / You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 1 Chronicles 22:12

Above all, may the LORD give you insight and understanding when He puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the Law of the LORD your God.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Nehemiah 9:20

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 4:3

Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 11:5, 6

But if only God would speak and open His lips against you, / and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 22:21, 22

Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you. / Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 32:7, 8

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom. / But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 33:16

He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 35:10, 11

But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, / who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 36:22

Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Job 38:36, 37

Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind? / Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 16:7

I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 19:1, 2

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. / Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 25:8, 9, 12, 14

Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way. / He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way. / Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 32:8

I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 36:9

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 51:6

Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 71:17

O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 94:12

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 112:4

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright—for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Psalm 119:130

The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Proverbs 1:23

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Proverbs 2:6, 7

For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding. / He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Proverbs 3:5, 6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; / in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Isaiah 11:1–3

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit. / The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. / And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Isaiah 30:21

And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Isaiah 42:6, 7, 16

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations, / to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house. / I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Isaiah 48:17

Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Isaiah 54:13

Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Daniel 1:17

To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. And Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Daniel 2:20–23

and declared: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. / He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. / He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Matthew 11:25–27

At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. / Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight. / All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Matthew 13:11

He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Matthew 16:16, 17

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” / Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Luke 1:76–79

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for Him, / to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, / because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Luke 12:11, 12

When you are brought before synagogues, rulers, and authorities, do not worry about how to defend yourselves or what to say. / For at that time the Holy Spirit will teach you what you should say.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Luke 21:15

For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Luke 24:32, 45

They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” / Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 1:1, 4, 5, 7–9, 17

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. / In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. / The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 6:45

It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 8:12, 31, 32

Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” / So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. / Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 9:5, 39

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” / Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 12:46

I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 14:7

If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 16:13, 14

However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. / He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 17:6, 26

I have revealed Your name to those You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. / And I have made Your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love You have for Me may be in them, and I in them.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God John 18:37

“Then You are a king!” Pilate said. “You say that I am a king,” Jesus answered. “For this reason I was born and have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to My voice.”

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Romans 1:19, 20

For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. / For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 1 Corinthians 2:9–14

Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.” / But God has revealed it to us by the Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. / For who among men knows the thoughts of man except his own spirit within him? So too, no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 1 Corinthians 12:8

To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Philippians 3:15

All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God Colossians 1:26–28

the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints. / To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. / We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 2 Timothy 1:7

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

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 2 Peter 1:2–5, 8, 12

Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. / His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. / Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 2 Peter 3:18

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 1 John 2:20, 27

You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. / And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

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Wisdom: Spiritual, from God 1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

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