• James 1:2-5
  My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
   
• Philippians 3:12-21
  Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
   
• 1 Corinthians 2:13-15
  These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
   
• Proverbs 1:5-7
  A wise man will hear and increase learning,
  And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,
  To understand a proverb and an enigma,
  The words of the wise and their riddles.
  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
  But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
   
• Proverbs 14:15-18
  The simple believes every word,
  But the prudent considers well his steps.
  A wise man fears and departs from evil,
  But a fool rages and is self-confident.
  A quick-tempered man acts foolishly,
  And a man of wicked intentions is hated.
  The simple inherit folly,
  But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
  
   
• Philippians 3:7-8
  But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
   
• Daniel 3:16-18
  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, "O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up."
   
• Acts 8:30-31
  So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him.
   
• Romans 10:14-15
  How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:
  "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
  Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
   
• Colossians 3:1-2
  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
   
• Colossians 3:9-10
  Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
   

Related Scriptures

• Hebrews 5:12
  For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
   
• 1 Corinthians 3:1-3
  And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
   
• Proverbs 1:2-4
  To know wisdom and instruction,
  To perceive the words of understanding,
  To receive the instruction of wisdom,
  Justice, judgment, and equity;
  To give prudence to the simple,
  To the young man knowledge and discretion—
  
   
• 2 Corinthians 4:16
  Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
   
• Matthew 7:21
  "Not everyone who says to Me, "Lord, Lord," shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
   
• John 4:24
  God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
   
• Romans 8:7
  Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
   
• 1 Corinthians 13:13
  And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
   
• Hebrews 13:5
  Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
   
• 1 Peter 5:2-3
  Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock;
   
• Numbers 27:18-20
  And the LORD said to Moses: "Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight. And you shall give some of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
   
• Job 42:1-6
  Then Job answered the LORD and said: "I know that You can do everything,
  And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. You asked, "Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?"
  Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
  Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. Listen, please, and let me speak;
  You said, "I will question you, and you shall answer Me." "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
  But now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself,
  And repent in dust and ashes."
   
• Proverbs 2:1-6
  My son, if you receive my words,
  And treasure my commands within you,
  So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
  And apply your heart to understanding;
  Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
  And lift up your voice for understanding,
  If you seek her as silver,
  And search for her as for hidden treasures;
  Then you will understand the fear of the LORD,
  And find the knowledge of God.
  For the LORD gives wisdom;
  From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
  
   
• 2 Corinthians 12:8-10
  Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
   
• Galatians 5:22
  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
   
• Ephesians 4:1-2
  I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
   
• Ephesians 4:29
  Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
   
• Philippians 2:5
  Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
   
• Colossians 3:12
  Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
   
• Colossians 3:14
  But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
   
• Titus 2:6
  Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,
   
• Hebrews 5:7-8
  who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
   
• Deuteronomy 32:28-29
  “For they are a nation void of counsel,
  Nor is there any understanding in them. Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
  That they would consider their latter end!