Bible Verses About Understanding the Word
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for understanding the word, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 6,636 votes, led by Psalms 119:130. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Understanding the Word
Psalms 119:130231 votes
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Hebrews 4:12209 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
John 16:13182 votes
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
2 Timothy 2:15175 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Proverbs 4:7174 votes
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
2 Timothy 3:16165 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Luke 24:45149 votes
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
James 1:5143 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.
2 Timothy 3:16-17127 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Matthew 13:23125 votes
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Psalms 119:105123 votes
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Mark 4:11-12122 votes
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
Proverbs 2:6112 votes
For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
John 14:26109 votes
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Acts 17:11106 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.
Hosea 4:6102 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.
1 Corinthians 2:1399 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.
Ephesians 1:17-1895 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:
2 Peter 3:1688 votes
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Colossians 3:1682 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.
1 Corinthians 2:12-1472 votes
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
John 3:1-3666 votes
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
1 Corinthians 2:1-1666 votes
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
Jeremiah 17:960 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
2 Timothy 2:760 votes
Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
What does the Bible say about understanding the word?
Readers most often cite Psalms 119:130 on the subject of understanding the word. Across 6,636 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 4:12, John 16:13, 2 Timothy 2:15. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.