He gave him the blueprints of all he envisioned for the courts of the Lord’s temple, all the surrounding rooms, the storehouses of God’s temple, and the storehouses for the holy items.

O Lord who rules over all, you test and prove the righteous. You see into people’s hearts and minds. Pay them back for what they have done because I trust you to vindicate my cause.

Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.

he plots evil with perverse thoughts in his heart, he spreads contention at all times.

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

He said to them, “The Lord will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!

I sent word back to him, “We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. All of this is a figment of your imagination.”

They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered.

When I tried to gain wisdom and to observe the activity on earth – even though it prevents anyone from sleeping day or night –

Each one of you should give just as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, because God loves a cheerful giver.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,

Everyone in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.

All the kings of the earth wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.

For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is known even in the heart of fools.

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.