1 Kings 3:9-12
9 aGive your servant therefore an understanding mind bto govern your people, that I may cdiscern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?”10It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this. 11And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 12behold, dI now do according to your word. Behold, eI give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
Psalms 101:2
2I will fponder the way gthat is blameless.Oh when will you hcome to me?
I will iwalk with jintegrity of heart
within my house;
Isaiah 11:2-3
2And kthe 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.
3And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
lHe shall not judge by mwhat his eyes see,
or decide disputes by nwhat his ears hear,
Matthew 10:16
Persecution Will Come
16 o“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be pwise as serpents and qinnocent as doves.1 Corinthians 14:20
20Brothers, rdo not be children in your thinking. sBe infants in evil, but in your thinking be tmature.Ephesians 1:17-18
17that uthe God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, vmay give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 whaving the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is xthe hope to which he has called you, what are ythe riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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