Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Obey them faithfully, and this will show the people of other nations how wise you are. When they hear of all these laws, they will say, 'What wisdom and understanding this great nation has!' New Revised Standard Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation. this is your Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding. Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever. Psalm 119:98-100 Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me. . . . Proverbs 1:7 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Proverbs 14:8 The wisdom of a discreet man is to understand his way: and the imprudence of fools erreth. Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them. 2 Timothy 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom. Surely 1 Kings 4:34 And they came from all nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who heard of his wisdom. 1 Kings 10:6-9 And she said to the king: The report is true, which I heard in my own country, . . . Psalm 119:99 I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation. Daniel 1:20 And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the diviners, and wise men, that were in all his kingdom. Daniel 4:9 Its leaves were most beautiful, and its fruit exceeding much: and in it was food for all: under it dwelt cattle and beasts, and in the branches thereof the fowls of the air had their abode: and all flesh did eat of it. Daniel 5:11-16 There is a man in thy kingdom that hath the spirit of the holy gods in him: and in the days of thy father knowledge and wisdom were found in him: for king Nabuchodonosor, thy father, appointed him prince of the wise men, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers, thy father, I say, O king: . . . Zechariah 8:20-23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come and dwell in many cities, . . . Malachi 3:12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for you shall be a delightful land, saith the Lord of hosts. Context An Exhortation to Obedience…5You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess: 6And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation.7Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions.… Cross References 2 Timothy 3:15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that you may understand all that you do. Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Deuteronomy 30:20 And that thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is thy life, and the length of thy days,) that thou mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them. Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law: Deuteronomy 32:47 For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it. Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding. Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is unspotted, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, giving wisdom to little ones. Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever. Psalm 119:98 Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me. Proverbs 1:7 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Ezekiel 5:5 Thus saith the Lord God: This is Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of the nations, and the countries round about her. Hosea 8:12 I shall write to him my manifold laws, which have been accounted as foreign. 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