Verse 17
I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, will give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,
Referenced Verses
- Isa 11:2 : 2 The LORD’s Spirit will rest on him– a Spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a Spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a Spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the LORD.
- Prov 2:5 : 5 then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
- 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 Believers’ Salvation and the Work of God I can pray this because his divine power has bestowed on us everything necessary for life and godliness through the rich knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence.
- Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical. 18 And the fruit that consists of righteousness is planted in peace among those who make peace.
- Col 1:9-9 : 9 Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects– bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
- 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
- John 17:25-26 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me. 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”
- John 20:17 : 17 Jesus replied,“Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them,‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
- 1 Cor 14:6 : 6 Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
- 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh It is necessary to go on boasting. Though it is not profitable, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord.
- Eph 1:3 : 3 Spiritual Blessings in Christ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.
- Eph 3:5 : 5 (which was not disclosed to people in former generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit),
- Eph 3:18-19 : 18 you will be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you will be filled up to all the fullness of God.
- Jer 9:24 : 24 If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the LORD, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things,” says the LORD.
- Ps 24:10 : 10 Who is this majestic king? The LORD of Heaven’s Armies! He is the majestic king!(Selah)
- Dan 2:28-30 : 28 However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the times to come. The dream and the visions you had while lying on your bed are as follows. 29 “As for you, O king, while you were in your bed your thoughts turned to future things. The revealer of mysteries has made known to you what will take place. 30 As for me, this mystery was revealed to me not because I possess more wisdom than any other living person, but so that the king may understand the interpretation and comprehend the thoughts of your mind.
- Dan 5:11 : 11 There is a man in your kingdom who has within him a spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, he proved to have insight, discernment, and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father appointed him chief of the magicians, astrologers, wise men, and diviners.
- Luke 2:14 : 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people with whom he is pleased!”
- 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth
- Titus 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that is in keeping with godliness,
- Jas 2:1 : 1 Prejudice and the Law of Love My brothers and sisters, do not show prejudice if you possess faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments. 4 The one who says“I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.
- Rev 7:12 : 12 saying,“Amen! Praise and glory, and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!”
- Matt 11:25 : 25 Jesus’ Invitation At that time Jesus said,“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to little children.
- Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.
- Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered him,“You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!
- Dan 10:1 : 1 An Angel Appears to Daniel In the third year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel(who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war. He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.
- Ps 29:3 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water.
- Gen 41:38-39 : 38 So Pharaoh asked his officials,“Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?” 39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!
- 1 Chr 29:11 : 11 O LORD, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You, LORD, have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler of all.
- Ps 24:7 : 7 Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!
- Jer 24:7 : 7 I will give them the desire to acknowledge that I am the LORD. I will be their God and they will be my people. For they will wholeheartedly return to me.’
- Jer 31:34 : 34 “People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD.“For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.”
- Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
- Rom 15:6 : 6 so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
- 1 Cor 2:10 : 10 God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
- Acts 6:10 : 10 Yet they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
- Acts 7:2 : 2 So he replied,“Brothers and fathers, listen to me. The God of glory appeared to our forefather Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran,
- John 8:54-55 : 54 Jesus replied,“If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say,‘He is our God.’ 55 Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.
- John 14:17 : 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.
- John 14:26 : 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.
- John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.
- John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life– that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
- Rom 1:28 : 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
- Matt 6:13 : 13 And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
- Luke 12:12 : 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”
- Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
- Col 2:2-3 : 2 My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.