Bible Verses About Having a Teachable Spirit
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for having a teachable spirit, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,583 votes, led by 1 Peter 5:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Having a Teachable Spirit
1 Peter 5:5197 votes
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Proverbs 12:1156 votes
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 13:18134 votes
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
Proverbs 9:9120 votes
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
1 Corinthians 2:13-14106 votes
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
2 Timothy 3:1685 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Proverbs 4:553 votes
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
2 Timothy 2:250 votes
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Hebrews 12:647 votes
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
James 1:1-2743 votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Psalms 1:1-638 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
1 John 2:1-2937 votes
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Acts 8:3136 votes
And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Romans 10:1735 votes
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Proverbs 22:631 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 29:130 votes
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Acts 17:1130 votes
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Proverbs 19:2025 votes
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Daniel 4:3724 votes
Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
2 Timothy 2:1522 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Peter 3:1822 votes
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Hosea 4:621 votes
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Luke 18:1719 votes
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
2 Timothy 3:219 votes
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Titus 2:119 votes
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
What does the Bible say about having a teachable spirit?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 5:5 on the subject of having a teachable spirit. Across 1,583 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 13:18, Proverbs 9:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.