Billy Graham once said, “It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him the lie at the root of every problem which besets us.”

Read five things the Bible teaches us about knowledge.

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“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.”

Proverbs 1:7

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“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.”

2 Peter 3:18

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“I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery—Christ.”

Colossians 2:2

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“If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.”

1 Corinthians 13:2

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“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge, knowledge with self-control, self-control with endurance, endurance with godliness, godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.”

2 Peter 1:5-7