Popular Bible Verses about Skill - Page 2

Found 28 Verses (from 11)

2 Chronicles 2:13

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"I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill," NIV

Now I have sent a skilled man, endued with understanding, even Huram-abi, my trusted counselor AMP

And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, KJV

1 Kings 10:23

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King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. NIV

So King Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom (skill). AMP

So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. KJV

Ecclesiastes 4:4

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And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person's envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. NIV

Then I saw that all painful effort in labor and all skill in work comes from man's rivalry with his neighbor. This is also vanity, a vain striving after the wind and a feeding on it. AMP

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. KJV

Ecclesiastes 10:10

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If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success. NIV

If the ax is dull and the man does not whet the edge, he must put forth more strength; but wisdom helps him to succeed. AMP

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. KJV

Ecclesiastes 2:21

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For people may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to others who have not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. NIV

For here is a man whose labor is with wisdom and knowledge and skill; yet to a man who has not toiled for it he must leave it all as his portion. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility) and a great evil! AMP

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. KJV

1 Kings 10:4

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When the queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built NIV

When the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom and skill, the house he had built AMP

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built, KJV

Ecclesiastes 2:19

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And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. NIV

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have dominion over all my labor in which I have toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)! AMP

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity. KJV

Ecclesiastes 9:11

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I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. NIV

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong, neither is bread to the wise nor riches to men of intelligence and understanding nor favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all. [Ps. 33:16-19; Rom. 9:16.] AMP

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. KJV

Proverbs 1:5

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Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance – NIV

The wise also will hear and increase in learning, and the person of understanding will acquire skill and attain to sound counsel [so that he may be able to steer his course rightly]--[Prov. 9:9.] AMP

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: KJV

Jeremiah 10:12

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But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. NIV

God made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and by His understanding and skill stretched out the heavens. AMP

He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. KJV