Wisdom Verses

But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.

And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of {that} way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified {him} not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

And even as they did not like to retain God in {their} knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: {without natural...: or unsociable}

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.