There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.

 Out in the open wisdom calls aloud,
    she raises her voice in the public square;
on top of the wall^[d] she cries out,
    at the city gate she makes her speech:

 “How long will you who are simple love your simple ways?
    How long will mockers delight in mockery
    and fools hate knowledge?
 Repent at my rebuke!
    Then I will pour out my thoughts to you,
    I will make known to you my teachings.

John 5:24

 “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”

² turning your ear to wisdom

    and applying your heart to understanding—

³ indeed, if you call out for insight

    and cry aloud for understanding,

⁴ and if you look for it as for silver

    and search for it as for hidden treasure,

⁵ then you will understand the fear of the

 Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.

⁶ For the

 Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

James 1:4-6

 O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

¹¹ Do not cast me

 from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.

¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation

    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Blessed are those who fear the Lord,
    who find great delight in his commands.

Their children will be mighty in the land;
    the generation of the upright will be blessed.

 on your walls, Jerusalem;
    they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
    give yourselves no rest,

⁷ and give him no rest

 till he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes her the praise of the earth.

 Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;

⁶ in all your ways submit to him,

    and he will make your paths straight.

 of the Lord,
    and he examines all your paths.

² Keep my commands and you will live;

    guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers;

    write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

    and to insight, “You are my relative.”

⁵ They will keep you from the adulterous woman,

    from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

    I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
    and this was the reward for all my toil.

¹¹ Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done

 and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
    nothing was gained under the sun.

Ecc2:10-11

“You are worthy to take the scroll
    and to open its seals,
because you were slain,
    and with your blood you purchased for God
    persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.

¹⁰ You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
    and they will reign on the earth.”

Gal 6:9-10

My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

 I put my trust in you.

⁴In God, whose word I praise—
in God I trust and am not afraid.
    What can mere mortals do to me?

² See, darkness

 covers the earth
    and thick darkness is over the peoples,
but the Lord rises upon you
    and his glory appears over you.

³ Nations

 will come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

“In just a little while,
    he who is coming will come
    and will not delay.”

Romans 13:11

Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done.

“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

2 Tim 1:7-8

Ecc 2:22-23