Giving Advice

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

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

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

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

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

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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.

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Yahweh’s word which you have spoken is good.” He said moreover, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

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

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

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

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

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

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

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,

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

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.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

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.

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

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

“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.

Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”

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 →

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.

“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

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

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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

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.

“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,

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

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

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

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

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

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

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

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.

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.

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

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

you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. — read the full passage →

For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

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

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

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

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

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

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 →

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.”

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?

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 →

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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 where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; — read the full passage →

But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does, — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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

One who gives to the poor has no lack; but one who closes his eyes will have many curses.

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

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

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

There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:

Indeed your statutes are my delight, and my counselors.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked. — read the full passage →

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

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.

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.