How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Verses For Discipline & Faith
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Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Ecclesiastes
WisdomThen spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.
Daniel
Major ProphetsAnd the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD?
1 Kings
HistoryOne kid of the goats for a sin offering:
Numbers
LawFor I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Romans
Pauline Epistles / PaulThey that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations
Major Prophets / JeremiahAnd will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Corinthians
Pauline EpistlesTherefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
Leviticus
Law / MosesThey shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions' whelps.
Jeremiah
Major ProphetsAnd the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
2 Kings
History / JeremiahAnd he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Ruth
History / SamuelLabour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs
Wisdom / SolomonYea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
Job
Wisdom / JobWherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Leviticus
Law / MosesDefend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Psalms
PoetryWho is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
Psalms
PoetryBehold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings
History / JeremiahWhen the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy
Law / MosesHast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Job
Wisdom / JobAnd the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraAnd as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.
Genesis
Law / MosesAnd it shall turn to you for a testimony.
Luke
Gospels / LukeAnd hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.