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Hosea 4:6 ESV / 290 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.Isaiah 5:13 ESV / 124 helpful votes Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.Romans 10:17 ESV / 88 helpful votes So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.John 8:32 ESV / 85 helpful votes And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”Proverbs 1:3-8 ESV / 76 helpful votes To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. …Ephesians 1:17-21 ESV / 62 helpful votes That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.1 John 5:4 ESV / 50 helpful votes For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 45 helpful votes For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.Luke 11:28 ESV / 45 helpful votes But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”Romans 8:7 ESV / 44 helpful votes For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.2 Peter 1:2-3 ESV / 37 helpful votes May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 36 helpful votes The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.John 16:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.Luke 4:4 ESV / 30 helpful votes And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”Job 36:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 27 helpful votes “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. …
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