Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know.

"How could I ever be that powerful?" Hazael asked. "I'm a nobody!" "The LORD has shown me that you will be king of Syria," Elisha replied.

"Who can understand the human heart? There is nothing else so deceitful; it is too sick to be healed.

For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,

all these evil things come from inside you and make you unclean."

Jesus said to them, "All of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, 'God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep will all be scattered.'

Peter answered, "I will never leave you, even though all the rest do!"

Peter answered even more strongly, "I will never say that, even if I have to die with you!" And all the other disciples said the same thing.

And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.

God said to us humans, "To be wise, you must have reverence for the Lord. To understand, you must turn from evil."

and you remember that ever since you were a child, you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

But if any of you lack wisdom, you should pray to God, who will give it to you; because God gives generously and graciously to all.

Are there any of you who are wise and understanding? You are to prove it by your good life, by your good deeds performed with humility and wisdom.

Such wisdom does not come down from heaven; it belongs to the world, it is unspiritual and demonic.

But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.