Bible Verses about

Most People Are Not Receptive To Wise Counsel


Proverbs 11:14

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.

Proverbs 12:15

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

Proverbs 15:22

Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellers they are established.

Job 15:8

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

Ecclesiastes 12:9

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

1 Kings 12:8

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 which stood before him:

Ephesians 5:15

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Proverbs 19:20

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Proverbs 1:5

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Proverbs 20:18

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Psalms 83:3

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.