⁷ He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

⁵ Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

¹⁵ This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

¹⁶ For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

³ In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁹ As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

¹⁸ He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

⁸ The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

² He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.

¹⁵ And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

¹⁷ So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

¹⁸ Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

⁶ But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:

⁷ But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;

³⁰ But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

¹⁴ Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

²⁴ But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

⁸ The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.