Ephesians 5:17

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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  • Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
  • Col 1:9 : 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
  • 1 Thess 4:1-3 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more. 2 For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
  • 1 Thess 5:18 : 18 in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • John 7:17 : 17 If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.
  • 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • Col 4:5 : 5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.
  • Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all they that do [his commandments] : His praise endureth for ever.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.
  • Prov 14:8 : 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
  • Eph 5:15 : 15 Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
  • Prov 2:5 : 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.
  • Deut 4:6 : 6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
  • 1 Kgs 3:9-9 : 9 Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this thy great people? 10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. 11 And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern justice; 12 behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
  • Ps 119:27 : 27 Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: So shall I meditate on thy wondrous works.

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    14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

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  • Eph 5:18-19
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    18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

    19speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

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    6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

    7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

    8For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

    9(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

    10proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

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    6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

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    17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

    18having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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    9For this cause we also, since the day we heard [it], do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

    10to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

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    2And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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    5O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • 2 Tim 2:7
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    7Consider what I say; for the Lord shall give thee understanding in all things.

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    17Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

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    23and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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    16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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    19Quench not the Spirit;