14 Bible Verses about Advice, From God

I will instruct you and show you the way to go;
with My eye on you, I will give counsel.

I will praise the Lord who counsels me—
even at night my conscience instructs me.

You guide me with Your counsel,
and afterward You will take me up in glory.

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed, and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see.

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him—
a Spirit of wisdom and understanding,
a Spirit of counsel and strength,
a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.

For a child will be born for us,
a son will be given to us,
and the government will be on His shoulders.
He will be named
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit—the Father will send Him in My name—will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you.

“When the Counselor comes, the One I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me.

When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.

All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

Since the Lord had decreed that Ahithophel’s good advice be undermined in order to bring about Absalom’s ruin, Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than Ahithophel’s advice.”

The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations;
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

for the Lord disciplines the one He loves,
just as a father, the son he delights in.