Luke 7:35
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35 Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”
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Proverbs 8:32-36
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32 “And now, my children, listen to me:
happy are those who keep my ways.(A)
33 Hear instruction and be wise,
and do not neglect it.
34 Happy is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.(B)
35 For whoever finds me finds life
and obtains favor from the Lord,(C)
36 but those who miss me injure themselves;
all who hate me love death.”(D)
Matthew 11:19
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19 the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”[a](A)
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- 11.19 Other ancient authorities read children
Hosea 14:9
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9 Those who are wise understand these things;
those who are discerning know them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the upright walk in them,
but transgressors stumble in them.(A)
Proverbs 17:16
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16 Why should fools have a price in hand
to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?
1 Corinthians 2:14-15
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14 Those who are unspiritual[a] do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(A) 15 Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.
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Luke 7:29
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29 (And all the people who heard this, including the tax collectors, acknowledged the justice of God,[a] having been baptized with John’s baptism.(A)
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- 7.29 Or praised God
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