Counsel

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Proverbs 1:5 let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
• Proverbs 9:9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man, and he will increase his learning.
• Proverbs 11:14 For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.
• Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
• Proverbs 15:22 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.
• Proverbs 19:20 Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
• Proverbs 20:18 Set plans by consultation, and wage war under sound guidance.
• Proverbs 24:6 Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.
• Proverbs 27:9 Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the counsel of a friend is sweetness to the soul.

See Prudence

Rejected

• Proverbs 1:24–33 Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction, in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you, when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distres…

Instances of

By Rehoboam

• 1 Kings 12:8–16 But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him. He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?” The young men who had…

By the rich young ruler

• Matthew 19:22 When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.