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100 Bible Verses about Education

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 4,153 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 3,705 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3,453 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 7:12 ESV / 2,958 helpful votes

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 2,918 helpful votes

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2,910 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 2,536 helpful votes

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2,521 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 2,332 helpful votes

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 2,289 helpful votes

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 2,210 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2,204 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Proverbs 9:9 ESV / 2,202 helpful votes

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 2,146 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 2,089 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Daniel 1:17 ESV / 2,081 helpful votes

As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Psalm 119:66 ESV / 1,911 helpful votes

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

James 1:5 ESV / 1,803 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 1,720 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 1,512 helpful votes

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

John 14:26 ESV / 1,497 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

Psalm 25:5 ESV / 1,491 helpful votes

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 1,486 helpful votes

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

Proverbs 1:5 ESV / 1,476 helpful votes

Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 1,463 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1,400 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Titus 2:1 ESV / 1,370 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 1,270 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 16:22 ESV / 1,267 helpful votes

Good sense is a fountain of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

Acts 7:22 ESV / 1,264 helpful votes

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

Matthew 5:19 ESV / 1,248 helpful votes

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Acts 22:3 ESV / 1,189 helpful votes

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.

Deuteronomy 6:1-25 ESV / 1,164 helpful votes

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. ...

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

John 3:10 ESV / 1,131 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

Matthew 28:19-20 ESV / 1,122 helpful votes

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 1,110 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

James 3:17 ESV / 1,096 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Proverbs 23:12 ESV / 1,069 helpful votes

Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 1,056 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 1,020 helpful votes

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Hosea 4:6 ESV / 1,015 helpful votes

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 981 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Luke 1:37 ESV / 979 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 968 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 951 helpful votes

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Proverbs 24:4 ESV / 920 helpful votes

By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 909 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 28:2 ESV / 904 helpful votes

When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 867 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 ESV / 864 helpful votes

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ...

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 846 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 John 2:27 ESV / 828 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

Psalm 25:4 ESV / 828 helpful votes

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.

John 7:16 ESV / 817 helpful votes

So Jesus answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Psalm 143:10 ESV / 800 helpful votes

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

Matthew 11:29-30 ESV / 796 helpful votes

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Proverbs 3:11-12 ESV / 794 helpful votes

My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

Psalm 25:8-9 ESV / 792 helpful votes

Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.

Proverbs 4:11 ESV / 776 helpful votes

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

Isaiah 26:9 ESV / 774 helpful votes

My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 760 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

Acts 5:42 ESV / 753 helpful votes

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 750 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Romans 12:1 ESV / 749 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Ecclesiastes 12:12 ESV / 730 helpful votes

My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 724 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 721 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Acts 20:20 ESV / 713 helpful votes

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 710 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 709 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 683 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Luke 6:40 ESV / 671 helpful votes

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Psalm 34:11 ESV / 653 helpful votes

Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 6:7 ESV / 653 helpful votes

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 651 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

John 8:32 ESV / 637 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

2 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 630 helpful votes

Always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Deuteronomy 4:10 ESV / 630 helpful votes

How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’

Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 626 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 622 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 619 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Deuteronomy 8:5 ESV / 614 helpful votes

Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you.

James 5:12 ESV / 613 helpful votes

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Romans 12:6-7 ESV / 608 helpful votes

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 586 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Ezekiel 44:23 ESV / 583 helpful votes

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

2 John 1:9 ESV / 580 helpful votes

Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Matthew 10:24 ESV / 574 helpful votes

“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 569 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Isaiah 28:9 ESV / 569 helpful votes

“To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?

1 Chronicles 25:8 ESV / 569 helpful votes

And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.

Job 6:24 ESV / 557 helpful votes

“Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 516 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

James 3:1-2 ESV / 514 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 512 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Proverbs 10:14 ESV / 511 helpful votes

The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 482 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 467 helpful votes

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 464 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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