Ecclesiastes 8:1
where as no man hath wy?dome & vnderstodinge, to geue answere there vnto. Wy?dome maketh a mas face to shyne, but malice putteth it out of fauoure.
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- Deut 28:50 : 50 an harde fauoured people, which regarde not the personne of the olde, ner haue compassion on the yonge.
- Acts 6:15 : 15 And all they that sat in the councell, loked vpo him and sawe his face as the face of an angell.
- Prov 4:8-9 : 8 Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure. 9 She shal make the a gracious heade, and garnish the with ye crowne of glory.
- Exod 34:29-30 : 29 Now wha Moses came downe fro mout Sinai, he had the two tables of wytnesse in his hande, & wyst not yt the skynne of his face shyned, because he had talked with him. 30 And wha Aaron & all the childre of Israel sawe yt the skynne of his face shyned, they were afrayed to come nye him.
- Eccl 2:13-14 : 13 and I sawe, that wy?dome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse. 14 For a wyse man beareth his eyes aboute in his heade, but the foole goeth in the darknesse. I perceaued also that they both had one ende.
- Dan 2:28-30 : 28 Only God in heaue ca open secretes, and he it is, that sheweth the kinge Nabuchodonosor, what is for to come in the latter dayes. Thy dreame, and that which thou hast sene in thyne heade vpon thy bed, is this: 29 O kynge, thou didest cast in thy mynde, what shulde come herafter: So he that is the opener off mysteries, telleth the, what is for to come. 30 As for me, this secrete is not shewed me, for eny wi?dome that I haue, more then eny other lyuynge: but only that I might shewe the kynge the interpretacion, & that he might knowe the thoughtes off his owne herte.
- Dan 2:47 : 47 The kynge answerde Daniel, and sayde: Yee off a treuth, youre God is a God aboue all goddes, a LORDE aboue all kynges, and an opener of secretes: seynge thou canst discouer this mysterie.
- Dan 4:18-19 : 18 This is the dreame, yt I kynge Nabuchodonosor haue sene. Therfore o Balthasar, tell thou me what it signifieth: for so moch as all the wyse men off my kyngdome are not able to shewe me, what it meaneth. But thou canst do it, for ye sprete of the holy Goddes is in the. 19 Then Daniel (whose name was Balthasar) helde his peace by the space of an houre ad his thoughtes troubled him. So the kynge spake, and sayde: O Balthasar, let nether the dreame ner the interpretacion theroff feare the. Balthasar answered, sayenge: O my LORDE, this dreame happen to thyne enemies, and the interpretacion to thyne aduersaries.
- Matt 17:2 : 2 and was transfigured before the: & his face shone as ye Sonne, and his clothes were as white as the light.
- Acts 4:13 : 13 They sawe the boldnesse of Peter & Ihon and marueyled, for they were sure yt they were vnlerned men and laye people. And they knewe the also, that they were wt Iesu.
- Acts 4:29 : 29 And now LORDE, beholde their threatenynges, and graunte vnto thy seruauntes with all stedfast boldnesse to speake thy worde:
- Job 33:23 : 23 Now yf there be an angel (one amonge a thousande) sent for to speake vnto ma, and to shewe him the right waye:
- Prov 1:6 : 6 he shal be more apte to vnderstonde a parable, and the interpretacion therof: the wordes of the wyse, and the darcke speaches of the same.
- Gen 40:8 : 8 They answered: We haue dreamed, and haue no man to declare it vnto vs. Ioseph sayde: Interpretinge belongeth vnto God, but tell it me yet.
- Gen 41:15-16 : 15 Then saide Pharao vnto him: I haue dreamed a dreame, and there is no man that can interprete it: but I haue herde tell of the, that wha thou hearest a dreame, thou declarest it. 16 Ioseph answered Pharao, and sayde: God shall geue Pharao a prosperous answere, yee well without me.
- Gen 41:38-39 : 38 And Pharao sayde vnto his seruauntes? How might we fynde soch a man, in whom is the sprete of God? 39 And sayde vnto Iosep: For so moch as God hath shewed ye all this, there is none of soch vnderstondinge & wysdome as thou.
- Prov 17:24 : 24 Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.
- Prov 24:5 : 5 A wyse ma is stroge, yee a ma of vnderstodinge is better, the he yt is mightie of stregth.
- 1 Cor 2:13-16 : 13 which we also speake, not with connynge wordes of mas wyssdome, but with the conynge wordes of the holy goost, and iudge spirituall matters spiritually. 14 Howbeit the naturall man perceaueth nothinge of ye sprete of God. It is foolishnes vnto him, and he can not perceaue it: for it must be spiritually discerned. 15 But he that is spirituall, discusseth all thinges, and he is iudged of no man. 16 For who hath knowne ye mynde of the LORDE? Or who shal enfourme him? But we haue the mynde of Christ.
- Eph 6:19 : 19 and for me, that the worde maye be geuen me, that I maye open my mouth boldly, to vtter the secretes of the Gospell,
- 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 Notwitstondynge the LORDE stode by me, & stregthed me, that by me the preachinge shulde be fulfylled to the vttemost, and that all the Heythe shulde heare. And I was delyuered out of the mouth of the lyon.
- 2 Pet 1:20 : 20 And this shal ye knowe first, that no prophecie in the scripture is done of eny priuate interpretacion.
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