Quotes about Wisdom
It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by carefully observing all the words of this instruction and these statutes.
- Deuteronomy 17:19
Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, and he will not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or to the left, in order that he and his sons may reign many years over his kingdom in Israel.
- Deuteronomy 17:20
You may ask in your heart, “How can we recognize a message that the LORD has not spoken?”
- Deuteronomy 18:21
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
- Deuteronomy 29:4
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
- Deuteronomy 29:29
And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
- Deuteronomy 30:13
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
- Deuteronomy 32:7
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
- Deuteronomy 32:28
If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Deuteronomy 32:29
For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
- Deuteronomy 32:47
Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Deuteronomy 34:9
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
- Joshua 7:3