advice
What does the Bible say about advice? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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20Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.
15The way of the foolish is right in his own eyes. But whoever is wise listens to counsels.
14Where there is no governor, the people shall fall. But where there is much counsel, well-being shall be.
6For war is undertaken in an orderly manner, and safety shall be where there are many counsels.
5Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. 6In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
29Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.
15The innocent trust every word. The astute one considers his own steps. Nothing good will be for the deceitful son. But the wise servant shall act prosperously and his way will be set in order.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
6king Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had assisted before his father Solomon while he was still living. And he said, “What counsel do you give to me, so that I may respond to this people?” 7They said to him, “If today you will obey and serve this people, and yield to their petition, and if you will speak lenient words to them, they will be your servants for all days.” 8But he abandoned the counsel of the old men, which they had given to him. And he consulted the young men who had been raised with him, and who were assisting him.
4And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.
1The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;