40 Bible Verses about Knowledge
Proverbs 18:15 An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 2:10 ESV / For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Hosea 4:6-7 ESV / 378 helpful votes My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The more they increased, the more they sinned against me; I will change their glory into shame.
Proverbs 24:5 ESV / A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
Proverbs 8:10 ESV / Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,
Proverbs 15:14 ESV / The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …
Proverbs 12:1 ESV / Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Psalm 119:66 ESV / Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Proverbs 2:6 ESV / For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Hosea 4:6 ESV / My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 180 helpful votes My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. …
Proverbs 1:5 ESV / 178 helpful votes Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
1 Corinthians 12:8 ESV / 155 helpful votes For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
James 1:5 ESV / If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Proverbs 9:10 ESV / The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Hosea 6:6 ESV / For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Proverbs 1:22 ESV / “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Psalm 111:10 ESV / The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Proverbs 2:10-11 ESV / For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
Genesis 2:17 ESV / But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Colossians 1:9 ESV / And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Proverbs 1:29 ESV / Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
Genesis 3:22 ESV / Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever-“
James 3:17 ESV / But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
Daniel 12:4 ESV / But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
Isaiah 11:2 ESV / And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.
James 3:13-18 ESV / Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. …
1 Kings 3:9 ESV / Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”
Psalm 19:2 ESV / Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
Proverbs 24:14 ESV / Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Proverbs 20:15 ESV / There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Isaiah 11:9 ESV / They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Luke 1:77 ESV / To give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,
Colossians 2:3 ESV / In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
John 8:32 ESV / And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”