In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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- WEB in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
- BSB in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- NKJV in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- NASB in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- NLT In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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Quick answer
In Christ are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. He alone is the source of true understanding.
Overview
All 'treasures of wisdom and knowledge' are found 'in whom'—in Christ. Against teachers promising hidden insight elsewhere, Paul says the real treasure is Christ and is openly available in Him. There is no wisdom worth having that bypasses the Son.
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- Wisdom"In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom."
Cross-references · 16
- 1 Cor 1:24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
- 1 Cor 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
- Rom 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
- 1 Cor 2:6–8Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
- 2 Tim 3:15–17And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
- Col 1:9For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
- Eph 3:9–10And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
- Eph 1:8Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
- Matt 10:26Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
- Prov 2:4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
- Job 28:21Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
- Rev 2:17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Col 3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Col 1:19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
- Isa 11:2And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
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