in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunities.

We proclaim him by instructing and teaching all people with all wisdom so that we may present every person mature in Christ.

Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and false humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body – a wisdom with no true value – they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

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