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100 Bible Verses about A Wise Man Taking Advice

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 76 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.

Proverbs 18:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 35 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

James 3:17 ESV / 32 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.

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

James 1:5 ESV / 23 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.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

Proverbs 23:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words.

Proverbs 9:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 1:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,

Ecclesiastes 4:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 12:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 13 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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 12 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 19:20-21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Proverbs 13:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

A wise son hears his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Proverbs 20:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.

Proverbs 15:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverbs 14:16 ESV / 11 helpful votes

One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil, but a fool is reckless and careless.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 7:24 ESV / 10 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.

Proverbs 29:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

Proverbs 12:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Proverbs 29:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Proverbs 27:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 12:25 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Proverbs 12:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.

Luke 18:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Jeremiah 38:15 ESV / 8 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.”

Isaiah 30:1 ESV / 8 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 7:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 22:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 19:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 15:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

Proverbs 13:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.

Proverbs 12:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Luke 14:28 ESV / 7 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?

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Proverbs 28:20 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 20:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with a simple babbler.

Proverbs 19:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.

Proverbs 13:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.

Proverbs 13:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.

Psalm 37:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives;

Matthew 6:19-21 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Proverbs 24:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 11:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 6:20-23 ESV / 6 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 1:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Job 12:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.

1 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

1 Corinthians 1:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

Ecclesiastes 2:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Proverbs 28:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

Proverbs 22:24-25 ESV / 5 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 22:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 21:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 14:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

Proverbs 10:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 37:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 4 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.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 4 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,

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

James 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

Colossians 2:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 20:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

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