Knowledge

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Of good and evil

• Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• Genesis 2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
• Genesis 3:22 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

Is power

• Proverbs 3:20 By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
• Proverbs 24:5 A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge enhances his strength.

Desire for

• 1 Kings 3:9 Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”
• Psalm 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in Your commandments.
• Proverbs 2 My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you, if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, then you will disce… (whole chapter)
• Proverbs 3 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments; for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life. Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will find favor and high… (whole chapter)
• Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
• Proverbs 15:14 A discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
• Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.

Rejected

• Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Those who reject are destroyed

• Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Fools hate

• Proverbs 1:22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
• Proverbs 1:29 For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

A divine gift

• 1 Corinthians 12:8 To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit,

Is pleasant

• Proverbs 2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Shall be increased

• Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”

The earth shall be full of

• Isaiah 11:9 They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

The fear (reverence) of the Lord is the beginning of

• Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Of more value than gold

• Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

The priest's lips should keep

• Malachi 2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

Of salvation

• Luke 1:77 to give to His people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins,

Key of

• Luke 11:52 Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

Now we know in part

• 1 Corinthians 13:9–12 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall…

Of God more than burnt offering

• Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Of Christ

• Philippians 3:8 More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ

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