This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}

Every word of God {is} pure: he {is} a shield unto them that put their trust in him. {pure: Heb. purified}

For the LORD God {is} a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good {thing} will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but {he that is} perverse {in his} ways shall fall at once.

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

The wisdom of the prudent {is} to understand his way: but the folly of fools {is} deceit.

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and {he} in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me. {My goodness: or, My mercy}

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. {In whom: or, Wherein}

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

Counsel {is} mine, and sound wisdom: I {am} understanding; I have strength.

The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

For the LORD God {is} a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good {thing} will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

The LORD {is} my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, {and} my high tower. {my strength: Heb. my rock}

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

For wisdom {is} a defence, {and} money {is} a defence: but the excellency of knowledge {is, that} wisdom giveth life to them that have it. {defence: Heb. shadow}

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before {them} all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

O {thou that art} named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? {are} these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly? {straitened: or, shortened?} {uprightly: Heb. upright?}