40 Bible Verses about Bad Counsel

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

A friend loveth 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 hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

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 instruction.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

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

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

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

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

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of 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 every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

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

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

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and 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 lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

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 which stood before him: