Quotes About Counsel

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

There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Have I not written for you thirty sayings about counsel and knowledge,

Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.

I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”

the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.

The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.

The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaohís wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

who confirms the message of His servant and fulfills the counsel of His messengers, who says of Jerusalem, ëShe will be inhabited,í and of the cities of Judah, ëThey will be rebuilt, and I will restore their ruins,í

Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.

Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”

Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,

Then the prophet Jeremiah replied to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the LORD.

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both men and women, who were answering him,