Bible verses about "wise" | Godbey

¹³ Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show forth out of beautiful conduct his works in meekness of wisdom. ¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

¹ James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting. ² Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations. ³ Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing. ⁵ But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest. ⁷ For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord, ⁸ the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways. ⁹ But let the humble brother boast in his exaltation: ¹⁰ and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. ¹¹ For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways. ¹² Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love. ¹³ Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one: ¹⁴ but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death. ¹⁶ Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change. ¹⁸ Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations. ¹⁹ Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: ²⁰ for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. ²¹ Therefore having laid aside all filthiness and excess of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. ²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: ²⁴ for he recognized himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgot what kind he was. ²⁵ But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work. ²⁶ But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain. ²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.

¹⁵ Therefore see how you walk about circumspectly, not as unwise, but wise;