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| What is recommended as the principal thing to gain? |
| "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." Prov. 4:7." |
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| What will this acquisition bring to those who obtain it? |
"Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring ""thee to honor, ""when thou dost embrace her. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee." Prov. 4:8, 9." |
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| How are the things of earth to be compared to it? |
"She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her." Prov. 3:15." |
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| Whence comes this precious acquirement? |
| "For the Lord giveth wisdom." Prov. 2:6." |
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| How may one obtain it? |
| "If 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." James 1:5." |
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| What does this asking involve? |
| "But let him ask in faith, ""nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord." James 1:6, 7." |
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| What is the beginning, or first state, of wisdom? |
"The fear of the Lord ""is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments: His praise endureth forever." Ps. 111:10." |
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| What has the Saviour promised to those who will keep His words? |
"If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him." John 14:23." |
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| What among other things, will the Spirit of God do for those who are thus favored? |
| "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." 1 Cor. 2:10." |
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| What is included in these "deep things?" |
"O Lord, how great are Thy works! and Thy thoughts are very deep." Ps. 92:5." |
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| How far may one hope to know the mind of God regarding himself? |
| "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." Rom. 12:2." |
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| How will he appear who has been thus honored of God? |
| "Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed." Eccl. 8:1." |
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| How many kinds of wisdom are there? |
| "Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world... But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory." 1 Cor. 2:6, 7." |
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| How is worldly wisdom regarded by God? |
| "For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God." 1 Cor. 3:19." |
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| What is the character of that wisdom which comes from God? |
| "But 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." ""James 3:17." |
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