Bible verses about "understanding" | Living_Oracles

³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness required by him; and all these things shall be superadded to you.

² My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into diverse trials; ³ knowing that the proof of your faith works out patience. ⁴ Let patience, therefore, have a perfect effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing.

⁶ Let your speech be always with gracefulness, seasoned with salt, knowing how you ought to answer every one.

¹ This, also, know, that in latter days perilous times will come. ² For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, defamers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, bargain-breakers, slanderers, incontinent, fierce, haters of good men, ⁴ headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God; ⁵ having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Now, from these, turn away. ⁶ Of these, indeed, are they who go into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts; ⁷ always learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Now, in the manner that Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men wholly corrupted in mind, reprobate as to the faith. ⁹ However, they shall not proceed further; for their foolishness shall be very plain to all, as theirs also was. ¹⁰ But you have fully known my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, meekness, love, patience, ¹¹ persecutions, sufferings, such as befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra: such persecutions I endured; but out of them all the Lord delivered me. ¹² And all, indeed, who will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall be persecuted: ¹³ but wicked men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. ¹⁴ In the meantime, do you continue in the things which you have learned, and with which you have been entrusted, knowing from whom you have learned them; ¹⁵ and that, from a child, you have known the sacred scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect-completely fitted for every good work.