Counseling

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

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

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

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

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

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

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

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

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.

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

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

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

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

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 →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book?

This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

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

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

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

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

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

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

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

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

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

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,

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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

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.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

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.

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, — read the full passage →

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Good News,

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

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.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Then she spoke, saying, “They were used to say in old times, ‘They shall surely ask counsel at Abel;’ and so they settled it.

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.