43 Bible Verses about advisers
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Also the chiefs of Zoan are foolish, the wise counseling Pharaoh the counsel became brutish: how shall ye say to Pharaoh, I the son of the wise, the son of kings of old?
The frustrating purposes with no counsel, but in the multitude of counselors it shall be set up.
Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.
For by guidance thou shalt make to thee war, and in the multitude of counselors salvation.
In no guidance the people will fall: and salvation in a multitude of counseling.
And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs: Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;
They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs. And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes
And they will say, Come, and we will purpose purposes against Jeremiah; for law shall not perish from the priest, and counsel from the wise, and the word from the prophet Come, and we will strike him with the tongue, and we will not attend to any of his words.
But the centurion was rather persuaded by the pilot and the shipmaster, than by the things spoken by Paul.
And there being much abstinence from food, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, Truly it was fitting, O men, having obeyed me, not to be conveyed from Crete, and gain this violence and damage.
Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.
Behold, their good not in the hand: the counsel of the unjust was far from me.
And he will say to say to me, Son of man, these the men purposing vanity and counseling evil counsel in this city Saying, It not being near; build houses: this the pot, and we the flesh. For this, prophesy against them, prophesy, thou son of man.
And when they shall say to you, Seek ye to necromancers and to wizards peeping and panting: shall not a people seek their God among the living for the dead? To the law and to the testimony if they will not speak according to this word, because no morning is in them.
And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against Amaziah, and he will send to him a prophet, and he will say to him, Wherefore soughtest thou the gods of the people who delivered not their people from thy hand? And it will be in his speaking to him, and he will say to him, Did they give thee for counselor to the king? Desist; for thyself, wherefore shall they strike thee? And the prophet will desist, and say, I knew that God counseled to destroy thee, for thou didst this, and thou heardest not to my counsel.
And the spirit of Egypt was emptied in its midst, and its counsel I will destroy: and they sought to the vanities and to the mutterers, and to the necromancers, and to the wizards.
And Moses' father-in-law will say to him, The word is not good which thou doest. Fading, thou wilt fade away, also thou, also this people that is with thee: for this word is heavy for thee; thou wilt not be able to do it thyself alone. Now hear to my voice, I will advise thee, and God will be with thee: be thou for the people towards God, and bring thou their words to God;read more.
And teach them the laws and the precepts and make known to them the way they shall go in it, and the work which they shall do. And thou shalt look out from all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, men hating gain; and set thou over them chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of ten. And they judged the people in all time: and it will be every great word they will bring to thee, and every small word they shall judge: and it will be light for thee, and they shall lift up with thee. If thou shalt do this word, and God commanded thee, and thou shalt be. able to stand, and all this people shall go to their place in peace. And Moses will hear to the voice of Jethro, and will do all that he said.
For thee, O God of my fathers, I praise and laud that thou gavest me wisdom and strength, and now didst make known to me what we sought from thee: for thou didst make known to us the king's word.
And now say I to you, Depart from these men, and leave them; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it shall be destroyed: And if it is of God, ye cannot destroy it; lest ye also be found contenders against God.
And in this I give an opinion: for this is profitable to you, which no only to do, but to will, ye began before from last year. And now also complete ye the doing; that as a forwardness to will so also to complete, out of what is possessed. For if a forwardness lie before, according as any has, it is acceptable, not as he has not.
Behold, they were to the sons of Israel by the word of Balaam for separating treacherously against Jehovah, concerning the word of Peor; and there will be a smiting in the assembly of Jehovah.
And it was announced to David, saying, Ahithophel among those conspiring with Absalom. And David will say, Now make foolish the counsel of Ahithophel, O Jehovah.
And Ahithophel will say to Absalom, I will now choose twelve thousand men. and I will rise and pursue after David this night:
And the king will consult and make two calves of gold, and he will say to them, Much for you going up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt And he will set up the one in the house of God, and the one he gave in Dan. And this word will be for sin: and the people will go before the one, even to Dan.
And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing, Neither turn ye in your thoughts that it is profitable to us, that one man die for the people, and the nation perish not. And this he said not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was about to die for the nation;read more.
And not for the nation alone, but that also the children of God, scattered, should be gathered into one. Then from that day they counselled together that they might kill him.
And Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol, leader of his army.
And Absalom will send for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, from Giloh, in his sacrificing sacrifices. And the conspiracy will be strong; and the people went and a multitude with Absalom.
And Azariah son of Nathan, over the stations: and Zabud, son of Nathan the priest, the king's friend:
And Jehoshaphat will say to the king of Israel, Seek now, according to the day, the word of Jehovah.
I will make thee wise, and teach thee in the way. which thou shalt go: I will counsel mine eyes upon thee.
I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see.
For a child was born to us, a son was given to us, and the dominion shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Captain of Peace.
And the spirit of Jehovah resting upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah:
But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Intercessor, that should remain with you forever;
And when the Intercessor should come, which I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, which comes from the Father, he shall testify of me:
And when he should come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he should hear, shall he speak: and he shall announce to you the things coming.