43 Bible Verses about advisers

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Isaiah 19:11

The rulers of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become brutish. How will ye say to Pharaoh, I am the son of wise men, the son of ancient kings?

Proverbs 1:25-26

but ye have made all my counsel void, and want none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes,

Proverbs 1:30-31

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not gi

Acts 27:11

But the centurion was convinced more by the captain and the shipmaster than to those things spoken by Paul.

Acts 27:21

And being long without food, then Paul, who stood in the midst of them, said, Ye truly ought, O men, to have complied with me, not to launch from Crete, and gain this damage and loss.

Job 21:16

Lo, [is] their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)

Ezekiel 11:2-4

And he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city, who say, [The time] is not near to build houses. This [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh. Therefore prophesy against them. Prophesy, O son of man.

Isaiah 8:19-20

And when they shall say to you, Seek for those who have familiar spirits and for the wizards, who chirp and who mutter, should not a people seek for their God? On behalf of the living [seek] to the dead? [Seek] to the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

2 Chronicles 25:15-16

Therefore the anger of LORD was kindled against Amaziah. And he sent a prophet to him, who said to him, Why have thou sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand? And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that [the king] said to him, Have we made thee of the king's counsel? Cease. Why should thou be smitten? Then the prophet ceased, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee,

Isaiah 19:3

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it, and I will destroy the counsel of it. And they shall seek for the idols, and for the charmers, and for those who have familiar spirits, and for the wizards.

Exodus 18:17-24

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou do is not good. Thou will surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee, for the thing is too heavy for thee. Thou are not able to perform it thyself alone. Hearken now to my voice. I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee. Be thou for the people toward God, and bring thou the cases to God.read more.
And thou shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and let them judge the people at all seasons. And it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring to thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear [the burden If thou shall do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shall be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace. So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

Acts 5:38-39

And now I say to you, keep away from these men, and let them go, because if the project or this work is from men, it will be overthrown, but if it is from God, ye cannot overthrow it, and perhaps ye may be found to be fighting against God.

2 Corinthians 8:10-12

And in this I give judgment, for this is expedient for you who earlier began, from a year ago, not only the doing but also the intending. And now also finish the doing, so that just as was the willingness of the intending, so also to finish from the having. For if the willingness is present, it is acceptable to the extent if some man has, not to the extent he does not have.

Numbers 31:16

Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of LORD.

2 Samuel 15:31

And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

2 Samuel 17:1

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night.

1 Kings 12:28-30

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold. And he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. And this thing became a sin, for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan.

John 11:49-53

And a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, Ye know nothing at all, nor do ye consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not the whole nation should perish. Now he said this not from himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation.read more.
And not for the nation only, but also that he might gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. So from that day they consulted together so that they might kill him.

Genesis 26:26

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

2 Samuel 15:12

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

1 Kings 4:5

and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, [and] the king's friend;

1 Kings 22:5

And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray thee, for the word of LORD.

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