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 2:3–6Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
• John 15:7If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
• Jer 29:12–13You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Prov 3:5–7Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
• 1 Jn 5:14–15This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
• 2 Chr 1:10Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”
• Matt 7:7–11“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Kgs 3:7–12Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.
• John 14:13Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
• John 16:23–24“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• 1 Jn 3:22and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
• Luke 11:9–13“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
• Exod 31:3and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
• John 4:10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
• Jas 5:16Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
• Exod 31:6Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
• 1 Chr 22:12May Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
• Prov 9:4–6“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
• Job 28:12–28“But where shall wisdom be found? 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 companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
• Exod 36:1–4“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.”
• Matt 11:20Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.
• Mark 16:14Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
• Jer 1:6–7Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”
• 2 Cor 2:16to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
• Luke 15:20–22“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

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