1 Kings 3:9 Cross References - CAB

⁹ Give therefore to Your servant a heart to hear and to judge Your people justly, and to discern between good and evil: for who will be able to judge this Your great people?

¹¹ And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and that I should bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt? ¹² And God spoke to Moses, saying, I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that I shall send you forth: when you bring out My people out of Egypt, then you shall serve God in this mountain.

¹⁰ And Moses said to the Lord, I pray, Lord, I have not been sufficient in former times, neither from the time that You have begun to speak to Your servant: I am weak in speech, and slow-tongued. ¹¹ And the Lord said to Moses, Who has given a mouth to man, and who has made the very hard of hearing, and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? Have not I, God? ¹² And now go, and I will open your mouth, and will instruct you in what you shall say. ¹³ And Moses said, O Lord, I pray, appoint another able person whom You shall send.

¹⁷ And the woman said, If now the word of my lord the king be gracious,--well: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, to hear good and evil; and the Lord your God shall be with you.

²⁸ And all Israel heard this judgment which the king judged, and they feared before the king; because they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to execute judgment.

¹² Only may the Lord give you wisdom and prudence, and strengthen you over Israel, both to keep and to do the law of the Lord your God.

¹⁹ And to Solomon my son give a good heart, to perform Your commandments, and to observe Your testimonies, and Your ordinances, and to accomplish the building of Your house.

¹⁰ Now give me wisdom and understanding, I pray, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who shall judge this, Your great people?

¹ For Solomon. O God, give Your judgment to the king, and Your righteousness to the king's son; ² that he may judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.

³⁴ Instruct me, and I will search out Your law, and will keep it with my whole heart.

⁷³ Your hands have made me, and fashioned me; instruct me, that I may learn Your commandments.

¹⁴⁴ Your testimonies are an everlasting righteousness; instruct me, and I shall live.

³ For if you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding; ⁴ and if you shall seek it as silver, and search diligently for it as for treasures; ⁵ then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. ⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom, and from His presence come knowledge and understanding, ⁷ and He treasures up salvation for them that walk uprightly: He will protect their way; ⁸ that He may guard the righteous ways: and He will preserve the way of them that fear Him. ⁹ Then shall you understand righteousness and judgment, equity and every good path.

¹³ Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence. ¹⁴ For it is better to traffic for her, than for treasures of gold and silver. ¹⁵ And she is more valuable than precious stones: no evil thing shall resist her. She is well known to all that approach her, and no precious thing is equal to her in value. ¹⁶ For length of days and years of life are in her right hand, and in her left hand are wealth and glory. ^(3:16A) Out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue. ¹⁷ Her ways are good ways, and all her paths are peaceful. ¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all that lay hold of her, and she is a secure help to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord.

⁸ The wisdom of the prudent will understand their ways, but the folly of fools leads astray.

¹⁶ The brood of wisdom is more to be chosen than gold, and the brood of prudence more to be chosen than silver.

¹² The ear hears, and the eye sees; even both of them are the Lord's work.

¹¹ Wisdom is good with an inheritance; and there is an advantage by it to them that see the sun.

¹⁹ Wisdom will help the wise man more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

¹⁵ and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man. ¹⁶ And I said, Wisdom is better than power; yet the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not listened to. ¹⁷ The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly. ¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war; and one sinner will destroy much good.

² and the Spirit of God shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and godliness shall fill Him; ³ the spirit of the fear of God. He shall not judge according to appearance, nor reprove according to report; ⁴ but He shall judge the cause of the lowly, and shall reprove the lowly of the earth; and He shall smite the earth with the word of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He destroy the ungodly one.

⁶ And I said, O Lord, Sovereign Lord, behold, I know not how to speak, for I am a child.

¹¹ I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit,

¹⁴ But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need by You to be baptized, and You are coming to me?"

³⁰ I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

¹⁴ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ¹⁵ But he that is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is discerned by no man. ¹⁶ To some we are the fragrance of death leading to death, but to others the fragrance of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

⁵ Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

¹⁷ Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

¹⁰ that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,

¹⁴ But solid food is for the mature, for those because of their practice have their senses trained for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.