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Advice Proverbs 19:20

Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.

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Advice Proverbs 11:14

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

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Advice Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.

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Advice Proverbs 24:6

Only with sound guidance should you wage war, and victory lies in a multitude of counselors.

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Advice Proverbs 3:5, 6

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; / in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

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Advice Ephesians 4:29

Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

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Advice Proverbs 14:15

The simple man believes every word, but the prudent man watches his steps.

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Advice 1 Kings 12:6–8

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked. / They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.” / But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

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Advice Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

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Advice Ephesians 6:4

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

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Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Israel Seduced to Idolatry by Advice of Balaam Numbers 25:1–3

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, / who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods. / So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.

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Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Israel Seduced to Idolatry by Advice of Balaam Revelation 2:14

But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

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Diseases: Those Afflicted With: Often Laid in the Streets to Receive Advice from Passers By Mark 6:56

And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

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Diseases: Those Afflicted With: Often Laid in the Streets to Receive Advice from Passers By Acts 5:15

As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

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Masters: should Receive Faithful Advice from Servants 2 Kings 5:13, 14

Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?” / So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.

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Prudence: David, in Overthrowing Ahithophel's Shrewd Advice 2 Samuel 15:33–37

David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me. / But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’ / Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be there with you? Report to them everything you hear from the king’s palace.

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Prudence: Jethro's Advice to Moses Exodus 18:17–23

But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good. / Surely you and these people with you will wear yourselves out, because the task is too heavy for you. You cannot handle it alone. / Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their causes to Him.

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Words without Knowledge, Darken Advice Job 38:2

“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?

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