1 Chronicles 19:3
the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, "Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!"
Genesis 42:9-18
Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!"
Joshua 2:1-3
Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: "Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho." They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.
Judges 1:23-24
When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel (it used to be called Luz),
Judges 18:2
The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, capable men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, "Go, explore the land." They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah's house.
Judges 18:8-10
When the Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them, "How did it go?"
1 Samuel 29:4
But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him, "Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don't let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men?
1 Samuel 29:9
Achish replied to David, "I am convinced that you are as reliable as the angel of God! However, the leaders of the Philistines have said, 'He must not go up with us in the battle.'
1 Kings 12:8-11
But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.
1 Corinthians 13:5-7
It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful.