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Advice
Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 197 helpful votes
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 184 helpful votes
Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.
Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 126 helpful votes
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 117 helpful votes
For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 116 helpful votes
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 74 helpful votes
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Proverbs 14:15 ESV / 58 helpful votes
The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
1 Kings 12:6-8 ESV / 56 helpful votes
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.” But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 51 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 4:13 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.
Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Psalm 119:24 ESV / 25 helpful votes
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
Proverbs 12:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes
The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV / 23 helpful votes
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 22 helpful votes
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
James 1:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Luke 14:28 ESV / 20 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV / 19 helpful votes
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 19 helpful votes
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 19 helpful votes
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Proverbs 30:18-19 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Jeremiah 38:15 ESV / 17 helpful votes
Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I tell you, will you not surely put me to death? And if I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”
Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 6:20-23 ESV / 17 helpful votes
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
Proverbs 3:12 ESV / 17 helpful votes
For the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 16 helpful votes
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Genesis 2:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
1 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.
Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Colossians 3:23 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
John 3:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes
Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Proverbs 15:31-33 ESV / 14 helpful votes
The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence. The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
James 3:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Romans 8:1-4 ESV / 13 helpful votes
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 13 helpful votes
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 13 helpful votes
Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!
Hebrews 13:1-25 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” …
Colossians 3:14 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Mark 10:9 ESV / 12 helpful votes
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Ecclesiastes 4:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes
And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Proverbs 27:17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes
Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.
Ruth 1:16-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”
Revelation 3:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
James 4:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
John 10:10 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Luke 14:28-30 ESV / 11 helpful votes
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.’
Matthew 7:24 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Isaiah 30:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes
“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
Ecclesiastes 11:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes
Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what disaster may happen on earth.
Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Romans 12:10 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
Romans 12:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
John 15:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Proverbs 24:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 10 helpful votes
Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 10 helpful votes
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. …
2 Kings 2:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
John 13:6-9 ESV / 9 helpful votes
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”
Proverbs 27:5-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
Proverbs 23:19-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way. Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 9 helpful votes
One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood …
Revelation 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
James 3:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Song of Solomon 8:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
Job 2:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Ephesians 5:15-16 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 7 helpful votes
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Malachi 2:14-15 ESV / 7 helpful votes
But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
Proverbs 26:1-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. …
Proverbs 12:1-28 ESV / 7 helpful votes
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. …
Psalm 133:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes
A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
Psalm 32:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Colossians 3:18-19 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
John 15:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Luke 1:37 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
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