If you need wisdom and understanding for a specific situation right now, these verses are meant to be prayed directly.
Every verse below is drawn from a verified King James Version text.
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalms 37:30
So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 3:4
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
Proverbs 3:13
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Proverbs 3:19
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs 3:21
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:14
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
Isaiah 40:28
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Psalms 32:9
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Psalms 51:6
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Proverbs 31:26
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Luke 11:31
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
Luke 11:49
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1 John 5:20
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
Psalms 147:5
But wisdom is justified of all her children.
Luke 7:35
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Job 11:6
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
Proverbs 23:4
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 23:9
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Proverbs 23:23
All verses are quoted from the King James Version (KJV), a public-domain translation.
James 1:5 works well prayed by naming the specific situation, asking directly for the wisdom God promises to give generously.
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Every verse on this page is drawn from the King James Version, a public-domain translation available in full at Blue Letter Bible for anyone who wants to study the wider context.
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Every verse in Bible Verses For Wisdom and Understanding is drawn from the King James Version specifically, a translation completed in 1611 that remains one of the most widely quoted English versions of Scripture. Its language is more formal than modern translations, which some readers find adds a certain weight to familiar passages.
The twenty verses in Bible Verses For Wisdom and Understanding were selected specifically because they speak directly to this subject, rather than only mentioning it in passing. Some are well known; others are easy to overlook on a first read through Scripture. Both kinds are included here because familiarity is not the same as relevance — a lesser-known verse can sometimes say exactly what a well-known one does not.
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Twenty verses is enough to give a genuine sense of how often Scripture returns to this subject, without becoming so long that no single verse gets the attention it deserves. Shorter lists risk missing important passages; much longer ones risk turning into a list nobody actually reads all the way through.
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