Proverbs 28:5

Evil people fail to grasp justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully. It links true moral understanding to knowing God.

Cross-references · 12

• Jas 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
• Ps 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:
• 1 Jn 2:20You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
• 1 Jn 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I am speaking from myself.
• Mark 4:10–13When he was alone, those who were around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.
• Jer 4:22“For my people are foolish, they don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
• Ps 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
• 1 Cor 2:14–15Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
• Prov 15:24The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
• Ps 119:100I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
• Prov 24:7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

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