Counsel

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.

Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people? — read the full passage →

The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: — read the full passage →

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →

But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word? who hath marked my word, and heard it?

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples.

And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

Agoodname is rather to be chosen than great riches, And loving favor rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. — read the full passage →

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. — read the full passage →

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? — read the full passage →

But into whatsoever city ye shall enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets thereof and say, — read the full passage →

Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

This isthe end of the matter; all hath been heard: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. — read the full passage →

Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. — read the full passage →

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.