40 Bible Verses about Bad Counsel

A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

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

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction: but he that regards reproof shall be honored.

Without counsel plans go wrong: but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally, and reproaches 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 one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days.

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 subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, has God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Jesus said unto him, I say not unto you, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your 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 counselors there is safety.

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

Only by pride comes strife: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive 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 sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

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

The righteous chooses his friends carefully: but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

And it came to pass, when he had finished 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 everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

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

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

Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathers by labor shall increase.

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

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

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

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

The wicked borrows, and pays not again: but the righteous shows mercy, and gives.

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 who stood before him: