¹⁵ Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

⁴ So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

⁵² And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

¹⁹ Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

²¹ What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

¹⁰ And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

¹⁰ Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

³⁵ The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

¹⁰ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰ Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

¹¹ Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

¹⁴ And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.

¹⁵ Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

¹⁶ But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.