Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
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1 Kings 4:34And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
Job 28:28And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalms 19:8The precepts of LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalms 119:98Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.
Proverbs 1:5that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning, and that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsels,
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41
Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →