99 Bible Verses about Knowledge (KJV)

Here are 99 Bible verses about knowledge, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Proverbs 1:7 KJV

⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Proverbs 18:15 KJV

¹⁵The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

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Proverbs 2:6 KJV

⁶For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

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Proverbs 12:1 KJV

¹Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

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Proverbs 9:10 KJV

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

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Psalm 119:66 KJV

⁶⁶Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

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2 Peter 3:18 KJV

¹⁸But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

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Hosea 4:6 KJV

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Psalm 19:2 KJV

²Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

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Proverbs 24:14 KJV

¹⁴So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

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Proverbs 15:14 KJV

¹⁴The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

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Romans 11:33 KJV

³³O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

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Proverbs 2:10 KJV

¹⁰When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

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Proverbs 24:5 KJV

⁵A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

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1 Corinthians 13:2 KJV

²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

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Ephesians 1:17 KJV

¹⁷That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

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Proverbs 11:2 KJV

²When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

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Ecclesiastes 1:18 KJV

¹⁸For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

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James 3:13 KJV

¹³Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

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Proverbs 1:5 KJV

⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

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James 1:5 KJV

⁵If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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Proverbs 2:1-22 KJV

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; ²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; ³Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; ⁴If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; ⁵Then …

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Colossians 2:2 KJV

²That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

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1 Corinthians 12:8 KJV

⁸For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

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Colossians 2:1-23 KJV

¹For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; ²That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; ³In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom …

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Proverbs 20:15 KJV

¹⁵There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

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Isaiah 11:2 KJV

²And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

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1 Peter 3:7 KJV

⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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Ecclesiastes 7:12 KJV

¹²For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

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Colossians 1:9 KJV

⁹For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

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Psalm 111:10 KJV

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

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Proverbs 11:9 KJV

⁹An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

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1 Corinthians 8:1 KJV

¹Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

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1 Corinthians 15:34 KJV

³⁴Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

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Proverbs 8:10 KJV

¹⁰Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

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Proverbs 2:3 KJV

³Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

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2 Peter 1:3 KJV

³According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

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Hosea 4:6-7 KJV

⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. ⁷As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

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Psalm 19:1-2 KJV

¹The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. ²Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

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Proverbs 1:29 KJV

²⁹For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

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Proverbs 3:1-35 KJV

¹My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: ²For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. ³Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: ⁴So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. …

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Job 28:28 KJV

²⁸And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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James 3:17 KJV

¹⁷But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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Colossians 3:9-10 KJV

⁹Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; ¹⁰And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

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2 Peter 1:5-7 KJV

⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; ⁶And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; ⁷And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

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Romans 3:20 KJV

²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

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Ephesians 1:2 KJV

²Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Proverbs 16:16 KJV

¹⁶How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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1 Peter 1:5-7 KJV

⁵Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ⁶Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: ⁷That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing …

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1 Peter 3:18 KJV

¹⁸For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

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Colossians 2:3 KJV

³In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

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Proverbs 3:7 KJV

⁷Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

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1 Timothy 2:4 KJV

⁴Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

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Colossians 2:2-3 KJV

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Daniel 2:21 KJV

²¹And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

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Genesis 2:17 KJV

¹⁷But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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Proverbs 19:20 KJV

²⁰Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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Colossians 2:8 KJV

⁸Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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Proverbs 15:33 KJV

³³The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

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1 Kings 3:9 KJV

⁹Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

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Proverbs 9:10-12 KJV

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. ¹¹For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. ¹²If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

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Proverbs 4:7 KJV

⁷Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

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Proverbs 18:2 KJV

²A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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Romans 11:2 KJV

²God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying,

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Proverbs 2:1 KJV

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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Isaiah 40:28 KJV

²⁸Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

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Daniel 12:4 KJV

⁴But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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Psalm 90:12 KJV

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

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Proverbs 14:29 KJV

²⁹He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

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Matthew 7:24 KJV

²⁴Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

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Colossians 3:2 KJV

²Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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Proverbs 19:8 KJV

⁸He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

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1 Peter 1:3 KJV

³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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1 Peter 1:2 KJV

²Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

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1 Corinthians 13:2-3 KJV

²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

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1 Corinthians 3:18 KJV

¹⁸Let 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.

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Proverbs 19:2 KJV

²Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

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Proverbs 16:22 KJV

²²Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

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John 8:32 KJV

³²And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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Job 12:12 KJV

¹²With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

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Proverbs 1:1-33 KJV

¹The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; ²To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; ³To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; ⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. ⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase …

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Proverbs 13:10 KJV

¹⁰Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

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1 Corinthians 1:30 KJV

³⁰But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

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Proverbs 1:22 KJV

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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1 Corinthians 1:25 KJV

²⁵Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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Romans 12:2 KJV

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Proverbs 2:10-11 KJV

¹⁰When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; ¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

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Proverbs 23:23 KJV

²³Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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James 3:3 KJV

³Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

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Genesis 4:1 KJV

¹And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

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2 Peter 1:5 KJV

⁵And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

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Romans 1:25-28 KJV

²⁵Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. ²⁶For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: ²⁷And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men …

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Proverbs 3:5 KJV

⁵Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

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Isaiah 11:9 KJV

⁹They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

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Proverbs 4:5 KJV

⁵Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

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Philippians 3:8 KJV

⁸Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

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Hosea 6:6 KJV

⁶For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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