James 1:5

Anyone lacking wisdom—especially to navigate trials—should simply ask God, who gives generously and without scolding. God delights to grant wisdom to those who seek it.

Cross-references · 29

• Prov 2:3–6Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
• John 15:7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
• Jer 29:12–13Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
• Prov 3:5–7Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
• 1 Jn 5:14–15And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
• 2 Chr 1:10Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?
• Matt 7:7–11Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Kgs 3:7–12And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
• John 14:13And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• John 16:23–24And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• 1 Jn 3:22And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Luke 11:9–13And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
• Exod 31:3And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
• John 4:10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
• Jas 5:16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
• Exod 31:6And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;
• 1 Chr 22:12Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
• Prov 9:4–6Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Job 28:12–28But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?
• Dan 2:18–22That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
• Exod 36:1–4Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
• Matt 11:20Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
• Mark 16:14Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.
• Jer 1:6–7Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
• 2 Cor 2:16To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
• Luke 15:20–22And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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