Ecclesiastes 8:1

True wisdom is precious and visibly transforms a person, softening a hard face and brightening the countenance. It shows that godly understanding shapes not only the mind but the whole bearing of life.

Cross-references · 22

• Acts 6:15All who sat in the council, fastening their eyes on him, saw his face like it was the face of an angel.
• Deut 28:50a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young,
• 2 Pet 1:20knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.
• Acts 4:29Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,
• Acts 4:13Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
• Dan 4:18–19This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
• Prov 4:8–9Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
• Job 33:23“If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;
• Exod 34:29–30When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mountain, Moses didn’t know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
• Eccl 2:13–14Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
• 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Prov 24:5A wise man has great power; and a knowledgeable man increases strength;
• Prov 17:24Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.
• Dan 2:28–30but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
• Matt 17:2He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.
• Gen 41:38–39Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
• 1 Cor 2:13–16Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
• Gen 41:15–16Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
• Prov 1:6to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
• Dan 2:47The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.
• Eph 6:19on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
• Gen 40:8They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”

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