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Counsellor
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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,
Where no wise guidance is, the people falleth; But in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.
For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war; And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
And 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 heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, — read the full passage →
And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was born, I am.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel; Yea, my heart instructeth me in the night seasons.
whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:
but of the Sonhe saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; And the sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →
for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.
Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?
Thy testimonies also are my delight Andmy counsellors. ד DALETH.
Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counsellor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons:
Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
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 quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.
looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
We love, because he first loved us.
And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.
not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.
in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.
Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me:
But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.
And when he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was noised that he was in the house. — read the full passage →
and great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →
to proclaim the year of Jehovah’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert artificer, and the skilful enchanter.
and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.
Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance make thou war.
There are many devices in a man’s heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
By pride cometh only contention; But with the well-advised is wisdom.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.
and weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:
and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king and his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thy hand,
and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →
And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is wonderful?
And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.
Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
even the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
I and the Father are one.
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.
No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him: and I will raise him up in the last day.
And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →
And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:
Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;
as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight. — read the full passage →
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