Bible verses about "knowledge" | LXX2012

¹ [My] son, if you will receive the utterance of my commandment, and hide it with you; ² your ear shall listen to wisdom; you shall also apply your heart to understanding, and shall apply it to the instruction of your son. ³ For it 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; and shall direct all your course aright. ¹⁰ For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul, ¹¹ good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you; ¹² to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully. ¹³ Alas [for those] who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness; ¹⁴ who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness; ¹⁵ whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding; ¹⁶ to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you, ¹⁷ [of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and forgotten the covenant of God. ¹⁸ For she has fixed her house near death, and [guided] her wheels near Hades with the giants. ¹⁹ None that go by her shall return, neither shall they take hold of right paths, for they are not apprehended of the years of life. ²⁰ For had they gone in good paths, they would have found the paths of righteousness easy. ²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the earth, and the holy shall be left behind in it. ²² The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.

⁶ My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall not minister as priest to me: and [as] you has forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

¹⁴ An upright heart seeks discretion; but the mouth of the uninstructed will experience evils.

¹ [My] son, forget not my laws; but let your heart keep my words: ² for length of existence, and years of life, and peace, shall they add to you. ³ Let not mercy and truth forsake you; but bind them about your neck: ⁴ so shall you find favor: and do you provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men. ⁵ Trust in God with all your heart; and be not exalted in your own wisdom. ⁶ In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths. ⁷ Be not wise in your own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil. ⁸ Then shall there be health to your body, and good keeping to your bones. ⁹ Honor the Lord with your just labors, and give him the first of your fruits of righteousness: ¹⁰ that your storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that your presses may burst forth with wine. ¹¹ [My] son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when you are rebuked of him: ¹² for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives. 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 existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: 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 upon her; and she is [a] secure [help] to all that stay themselves on her, as on the Lord. ¹⁹ God by wisdom founded the earth, and by prudence he prepared the heavens. ²⁰ By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water. ²¹ [My] son, let [them] not pass from [you], but keep my counsel and understanding: ²² that your soul may live, and that there may be grace round your neck; and it shall be health to your flesh, and safety to your bones: ²³ that you may go confidently in peace in all your ways, and that your foot may not stumble. ²⁴ For if you rest, you shall be undismayed; and if you sleep, you shall slumber sweetly. ²⁵ And you shall not be afraid of alarm coming upon you, neither of approaching attacks of ungodly men. ²⁶ For the Lord shall be over all your ways, and shall establish your foot that you be not moved. ²⁷ Forbear not to do good to the poor, whenever your hand may have [power] to help [him]. ²⁸ Say not, Come back another time, to-morrow I will give; while you are able to do [him] good: for you know not what the next day will bring forth. ²⁹ Devise not evil against your friend, living near you and trusting in you. ³⁰ Be not ready to quarrel with a man without a cause, lest he do you some harm. ³¹ Procure not the reproaches of bad men, neither do you covet their ways. ³² For every transgressor is unclean before the Lord; neither does he sit among the righteous. ³³ The curse of God is in the houses of the ungodly; but the habitations of the just are blessed. ³⁴ The Lord resists the proud; but he gives grace to the humble. ³⁵ The wise shall inherit glory; but the ungodly have exalted [their own] dishonor.

¹ He that loves instruction loves sense, but he that hates reproofs is a fool.

⁵ A wise man is better than a strong man; and a man who has prudence than a large estate.

¹⁰ Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than tried gold.

⁶ My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall not minister as priest to me: and [as] you has forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. ⁷ According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and [there is] good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nothing wisdom and instruction.

¹⁰ For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,

¹⁵ The heart of the sensible [man] purchases discretion; and the ears of the wise seek understanding.