2 Chronicles 10:6

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,

Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. They cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. He blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion do we have in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So all Israel departed to their tents.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.”

Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”

Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, receive in your heart and hear with your ears all my words that I speak to you.

In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”

David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’ ”

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’ ”

David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”

So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:

But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’ ”

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” They said, “Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.

“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”

“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, “Will you not receive instruction to listen to my words?” says Yahweh.

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us;

For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

There is one gone out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.