What does the Bible say about common sense?
In life, you will not get far without having common sense. Common sense tells us that there is a God. All it takes is stepping outside your door and looking all around you to see that there is a God. People disregard the scientific facts in the Bible. More and more Biblical prophecies are coming true. There are eye witness accounts of Jesus and the Bible being written. Though everything points to God, many people choose to say, “there is no God.” Common sense is essential. We develop common sense by learning, reading God’s Word, experience, reflecting, comparing the risks and rewards, and asking others.
Christian quotes about common sense
“It is easier to serve God without a vision, easier to work for God without a call, because then you are not bothered by what God requires; common sense is your guide, veneered over with Christian sentiment. You will be more prosperous and successful, more leisure-hearted, if you never realize the call of God.” Oswald Chambers
“Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don’t deify common sense.” Oswald Chambers
“Certainty is the mark of the commonsense life-gracious uncertainty is the mark of the spiritual life.” — Oswald Chambers
Scriptures that talk about having common sense
1. Proverbs 3:21 “My child, don’t lose sight of common sense and discernment. Hang on to them.”
2. Proverbs 10:21 “The words of the godly encourage many, but fools are destroyed by their lack of common sense.”
3. Proverbs 8:5 (NIV) “O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.”
4. Proverbs 17:16 (KJV) “Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?”
5. Proverbs 18:1 “Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.”
Consequences on lacking common sense
6. Proverbs 21:16 “The person who strays from common sense will end up in the company of the dead.”
7. Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”
8. Proverbs 9:12 “If you become wise, you will be the one to benefit. If you scorn wisdom, you will be the one to suffer.”
Common sense and God
Evidence of God’s existence is all around us.
9. Psalm 14:1 “The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.”
10. Psalm 10:4 “In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” – (Pride in the Bible)
Common sense saves lives
11. Proverbs 27:12 “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.”
Bad friends will lead you astray
12. 1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
13. Proverbs 13:20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
How to gain wisdom?
14. James 1:5 “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.”
15. Mark 12:30 “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” – (What verses in the Bible talk about love?)
16. Joshua 1:8 “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
17. Proverbs 2:6 “For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.”
18. Proverbs 30:2-5 (ESV) “Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. 3 I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you know!” 5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.”
Reminders
19. Proverbs 28:26 “Those who trust in themselves are fools, but those who walk in wisdom are kept safe.”
20. James 1:22 “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.”
21. Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
22. Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in and rely confidently on the LORD with all your heart And do not rely on your own insight or understanding.”
Examples of common sense in the Bible
23. Proverbs 24:30 “I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one with no common sense.”
24. Proverbs 7:7 “I saw some naive young men, and one in particular who lacked common sense.”
25. Jeremiah 49:7 “Against Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?”
