One definition of understanding is “to see the truth of a statement.” In regards to God, this would mean understanding that He exists and that He is who He says He is. It also means understanding His character and what He desires for us. When we understand these things, we are better able to align our lives with Him and experience His blessings.
Another definition of understanding is “to have empathy or knowledge of someone’s situation.” In regards to God, this would mean recognizing that He knows everything about us – our thoughts, our feelings, our past, our present, and our future. He knows us better than we know ourselves and He loves us unconditionally. This understanding should lead us to humility and a desire to please Him in all that we do.
When we seek to understand God, we are seeking a deeper relationship with Him. We want to know Him more intimately and follow His will for our lives. As we grow in understanding, we also grow in our love for Him. And as we love Him more, we naturally desire to please Him in all that we do.
So ask yourself today, how well do you understand God? Do you seek to know Him more deeply? Or do you just go through the motions of your faith without really taking the time to get to know the One who saved you? Take some time today to pray and ask God to help you understand Him more. He is waiting to reveal Himself to you in new and wonderful ways.
Understanding is critical for our relationship with God because it helps us to know Him better and follow His will for our lives. If we don’t take the time to understand God, we will never fully be able to appreciate all that He has done for us or experience the fullness of His blessings. So let’s make a commitment to seek understanding today. It will be worth it, I promise!
Bible Verses About Understanding
1. 1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
2. 1 Kings 4:29
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
3. Proverbs 3:19
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
4. Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
5. Isaiah 40:21
Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
6. Isaiah 41:20
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
7. Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
8. Psalm 119:27
Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
9. Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
10. Matthew 17:13
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.
11. Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
12. Colossians 2:2
That 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;
13. Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
14. Matthew 16:12
Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
15. Psalm 147:5
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
16. Daniel 9:22
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
17. Ephesians 3:4
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
18. 1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
19. Job 42:3
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
20. Daniel 1:17
As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
21. Matthew 24:15
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
22. John 2:22
When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
23. Jeremiah 51:15
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.
24. Luke 8:10
And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
25. Psalm 136:5
To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
26. 1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
27. John 14:26
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
28. Ephesians 5:17
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
29. Jeremiah 9:24
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
30. Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
31. Colossians 1:9
For 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;
32. Isaiah 43:10
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
33. Deuteronomy 9:6
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
34. Job 37:5
God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
35. Mark 4:33
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
36. Matthew 13:11
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
37. Mark 4:11
And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
38. Hebrews 11:3
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
39. Nehemiah 8:8
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
40. 1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
41. 1 Chronicles 28:19
All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
42. Daniel 9:2
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
43. Isaiah 11:2
And 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;
44. Mark 8:17
And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
45. Jeremiah 15:15
O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.
46. Isaiah 29:24
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
47. Proverbs 2:5
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
48. Jeremiah 30:24
The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
49. Deuteronomy 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
50. John 10:38
But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
51. Isaiah 52:15
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
52. 1 Chronicles 28:12
And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
53. Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
54. Proverbs 20:24
Man’s goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
55. Daniel 2:21
And 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:
56. Ephesians 1:17
That 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:
57. Psalm 119:73
JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
58. Job 32:8
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
59. Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
60. Romans 15:21
But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.
61. Ephesians 1:18
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
62. Psalm 119:130
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
63. Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
64. Mark 13:14
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
65. Ephesians 1:9
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
66. Job 36:29
Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
67. Job 12:13
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
68. Jeremiah 23:20
The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
69. Luke 24:45
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
70. Job 38:36
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
71. John 12:16
These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
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