giving advice
What does the Bible say about giving 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.
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.
24Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
5But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
10Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.
9The heart of man disposes his way. But it is for Lord to direct his steps.
17But within the wisdom that is from above, certainly, chastity is first, and next peacefulness, meekness, openness, consenting to what is good, a plenitude of mercy and good fruits, not judging, without falseness.
48Yet he who did not know, and who acted in a way that deserves a beating, will be beaten fewer times. So then, of all to whom much has been given, much will be required. And of those to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked.
13Better is a boy, poor and wise, than a king, old and foolish, who does not know to look ahead for the sake of posterity.
15The way of the foolish is right in his own eyes. But whoever is wise listens to counsels.
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.