Are You Wise or Otherwise?

Do you know what it really means to be wise?

• Wise people listen to instruction, especially the Word of God.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Proverbs 1:5

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Proverbs 22:17

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 23:23

• Wise people fear the Lord.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:7

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

Proverbs 3:7

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 8:13

• Wise people associate with wise people.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 13:20

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2:20

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Proverbs 9:6

• Wise people preserve what they’ve gained and they use it.

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 10:14

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Proverbs 13:4

A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Proverbs 9:13

• Wise people flee from sin.

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

Proverbs 14:16

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Proverbs 16:17

A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

Proverbs 22:3

• Wise people discipline their speech.

The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

Proverbs 16:23

In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Proverbs 10:19

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

Proverbs 15:28

• Wise people are diligent in their work.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

Proverbs 27:23

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Proverbs 4:23

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 6:6-8

• Wise people seek to influence others to trust the Lord.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.

Proverbs 11:30

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 12:18

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Proverbs 15:4

Has the Word of God shown you to be wise, or otherwise?