Quotes About Wisdom

To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.

Even if I wanted to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me,

I have become a fool, but you drove me to it. In fact, you should have commended me, since I am in no way inferior to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.

This is the third time I am coming to you. “Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.”

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

Such persuasion does not come from the One who calls you.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly.

In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,

which was not made known to men in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to Godís holy apostles and prophets.

and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.

His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.

They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.