Bible verses about "understanding" | Sawyer

³³ But seek first righteousness and his kingdom, and all these things shall be added to you.

² Account it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience have a perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.

⁶ Let your words always be with kindness, seasoned with salt, that you may know how to answer every one.

^{1 (2:1)} AND know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come. ² Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, covenant breakers, slanderers, intemperate, ungentle, despisers of the good, ⁴ traitors, rash, boasters, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God, ⁵ having a form of piety but denying its power; and these avoid. ⁶ Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires, ⁷ always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men of no judgment, reprobate in respect to the faith. ⁹ But they shall proceed no further; for their foolishness shall become manifest to all, as theirs also was. ¹⁰ But you have followed my instruction,—mode of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, patience, ¹¹ persecutions, sufferings, which befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the great persecutions which I suffered, and the Lord delivered me from all. ¹² And all who will live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted. ¹³ But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. ¹⁴ But do you continue in what you learned and understood, knowing from whom you learned, ¹⁵ and that from a child you have known the sacred Scriptures, which can make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for education in righteousnes, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly fitted for every good work.