What Does the Bible Say About King With Bad Counselors?

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 20:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Proverbs 29:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

One who is righteous is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring. This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— ...

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 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.

1 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 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.

Luke 14:28 ESV / 2 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?

Jeremiah 38:15 ESV / 2 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 / 2 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 4:13 ESV / 2 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 / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:20-23 ESV / 2 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,

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

33 Bible Verses about King With Bad Counselors

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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Proverbs 16:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 14:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 38:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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33 Bible Verses about King With Bad Counselors

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Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Proverbs 20:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 19:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 29:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 14:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 38:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 30:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:20-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote