Bible Verses About Knowledge: Desire for
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
My 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.
Yea 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,
But 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.
They 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.
Verses on Desire for
Give 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?
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.