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Wise Counsel Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 856 helpful votes The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 651 helpful votes Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 565 helpful votes Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.Proverbs 19:20-21 ESV / 489 helpful votes Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 357 helpful votes For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 310 helpful votes Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; …Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 280 helpful votes By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 266 helpful votes Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 248 helpful votes The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.Proverbs 20:18 ESV / 244 helpful votes Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 223 helpful votes Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 200 helpful votes All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,Psalm 119:105 ESV / 197 helpful votes Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.James 3:17 ESV / 191 helpful votes But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 176 helpful votes Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 171 helpful votes Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 171 helpful votes My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …1 Kings 12:6-19 ESV / 162 helpful votes Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.” But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him. And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?” And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,’ thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs. …James 1:5 ESV / 159 helpful votes If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.Proverbs 1:5 ESV / 142 helpful votes Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 141 helpful votes For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.1 John 4:1 ESV / 111 helpful votes Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 107 helpful votes Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 103 helpful votes The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the y
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