Counsel

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

Where no counsel is, the people fall: 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 guide thee with mine eye.

And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? — read the full passage →

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. — read the full passage →

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto 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 a light unto my path.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →

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

Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, 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 counsel of the Lord, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?

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

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

And I will bring the third part through 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, The Lord is my God.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence 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 daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me? — read the full passage →

But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say, — read the full passage →

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode 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 of it.

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

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: 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.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour 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 which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine 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 for ever.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor 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 neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. — read the full passage →

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

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 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 made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

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

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: 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 abundance of idleness 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: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every 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.