Bible Verses About Simplicity

The Torah of ADONAI is perfect, restoring the inner person. The instruction of ADONAI is sure, making wise the thoughtless.

ADONAI preserves the thoughtless; when I was brought low, he saved me.

Your words are a doorway that lets in light, giving understanding to the thoughtless.

A song of ascents. By David: ADONAI, my heart isn't proud; I don't set my sight too high, I don't take part in great affairs or in wonders far beyond me.

No, I keep myself calm and quiet, like a little child on its mother's lap -I keep myself like a little child.

for endowing with caution those who don't think and the young person with knowledge and discretion.

If you strike a scorner, the simple will learn to act wisely; if you reprove the intelligent, he will understand what you mean.

When a scorner is punished, the simple become wiser; and when the wise is instructed, he takes hold of knowledge.

I said, "Oh, Adonai ELOHIM, I don't even know how to speak! I'm just a child!"

`The eye is the lamp of the body.' So if you have a `good eye' [that is, if you are generous] your whole body will be full of light;

It was at that time that Yeshua said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you concealed these things from the sophisticated and educated and revealed them to ordinary folks.

He called a child to him, stood him among them,

and said, "Yes! I tell you that unless you change and become like little children, you won't even enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

Continuing faithfully and with singleness of purpose to meet in the Temple courts daily, and breaking bread in their several homes, they shared their food in joy and simplicity of heart,

All the many believers were one in heart and soul, and no one claimed any of his possessions for himself, but everyone shared everything he had.

if you are a counselor, use your gift to comfort and exhort; if you are someone who gives, do it simply and generously; if you are in a position of leadership, lead with diligence and zeal; if you are one who does acts of mercy, do them cheerfully.

For everyone has heard about your obedience; therefore I rejoice over you. However, I want you to be wise concerning good, but innocent concerning evil.

Let no one fool himself. If someone among you thinks he is wise (by this world’s standards), let him become “foolish,” so that he may become really wise.

Brothers, don’t be children in your thinking. In evil, be like infants; but in your thinking, be grown-up.

For we take pride in this: that our conscience assures us that in our dealings with the world, and especially with you, we have conducted ourselves with frankness and godly pureness of motive — not by worldly wisdom but by God-given grace.

and I fear that somehow your minds may be seduced away from simple and pure devotion to the Messiah, just as Havah was deceived by the serpent and his craftiness.

For the appeal we make does not flow from error or from impure motives, neither do we try to trick people.

Instead, since God has tested us and found us fit to be entrusted with Good News, this is how we speak: not to win favor with people but with God, who tests our hearts.

For, as you know, never did we employ flattering talk, nor did we put on a false front to mask greed — God is witness.

Nor did we seek human praise — either from you or from others.