Bible Verses About Seeking Wisdom
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for seeking wisdom, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,981 votes, led by James 1:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Seeking Wisdom
James 1:5313 votes
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Proverbs 1:7174 votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Colossians 3:16147 votes
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Proverbs 8:11-12144 votes
For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
James 3:17119 votes
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Ephesians 1:17106 votes
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Proverbs 3:13102 votes
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Luke 21:1598 votes
For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Proverbs 4:793 votes
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Romans 11:3368 votes
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
Proverbs 17:2767 votes
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Proverbs 16:1664 votes
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Colossians 2:863 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Proverbs 19:2062 votes
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Proverbs 2:659 votes
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-2955 votes
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
1 Corinthians 2:1354 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.
Ecclesiastes 7:1251 votes
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
1 John 4:151 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
John 5:3048 votes
I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Matthew 13:1145 votes
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
1 Corinthians 1:3045 votes
But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Psalms 90:1243 votes
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Proverbs 4:541 votes
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 11:241 votes
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
What does the Bible say about seeking wisdom?
Readers most often cite James 1:5 on the subject of seeking wisdom. Across 3,981 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 1:7, Colossians 3:16, Proverbs 8:11-12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.