Advice

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?” — read the full passage →

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path! — read the full passage →

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. — read the full passage →

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? — read the full passage →

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

(after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),

Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him. — read the full passage →

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding; — read the full passage →

In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.