1 Kings 2:18

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

He recognized it, and said, “It is my son’s tunic. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.”

David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”

Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

They have seen falsehood and lying divination, who say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but Yahweh has not sent them. They have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I can’t come down. Why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?”

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.