40 Bible Verses about Bad Counsel

The man that has friends must show himself to be a friend, and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

He that walks with wise men shall be wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses chastening: but he that regards reproof shall be honoured.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

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

Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have; for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let them ask of God (who gives abundantly to all, and without reproach), and it shall be given them.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser; teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.

There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.

Hear counsel, and receive chastening that thou may be wise in thy old age.

For even when we were with you, this we declared unto you, that if anyone desires not to work neither should he eat.

Now the serpent was more astute than all the animals of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Has God indeed said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Jesus said unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times, but, Until seventy times seven.

Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes thy offspring against the stones.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husband, as unto the Lord.

If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:

When intelligence is lacking, the people shall fall, but in the multitude of counsellors there is salvation.

The way of the fool is right in his own eyes, but he that hears counsel is wise.

Pride shall certainly give birth to contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Go from the presence of the foolish man when thou dost not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

How much better is it to acquire wisdom than gold! and to acquire understanding is worth more than silver!

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

The righteous causes his neighbour to consider: but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

And it came to pass when he had finished speaking unto Saul that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Most men will proclaim each one his own mercy, but who can find a man of truth?

Two are better than one because they have a better reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falls, for he has not another to help him up.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Therefore comfort and edify one another, even as ye do.

The riches of vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labour shall increase.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom ye have of God, and that ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father ye desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

And fear not those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

And I will raise up for them a plant by name, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the Gentiles any longer.

My people were cut off because they lacked wisdom; because thou hast rejected wisdom, I will cast thee out of the priesthood; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy sons.

But if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Moreover, it is required in stewards that each one be found faithful.

Lamed The wicked borrows and does not repay: but the righteous shows mercy and gives.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him and who stood before him.