Proverbs 19:20

Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

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Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”

Deuteronomy 32:29
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Psalms 37:38
As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalms 73:17
until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Psalms 90:12
So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalms 90:14
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

Luke 16:19
“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Luke 16:20
A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

Luke 16:21
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man’s table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores.

Luke 16:22
The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 16:23
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.

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Judges 8:1
The men of Ephraim said to him, “Why have you treated us this way, that you didn’t call us when you went to fight with Midian?” They rebuked him sharply.

Judges 8:2
He said to them, “What have I now done in comparison with you? Isn’t the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

Judges 8:3
God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb! What was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

Proverbs 12:16
A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

Proverbs 13:10
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Proverbs 20:18
Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

Proverbs 25:8
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

Luke 14:29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

Luke 14:30
saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

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1 Chronicles 21:11
So Gad came to David and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Take your choice:

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2 Chronicles 10:6
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 about how to answer these people?”

Job 12:12
With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

Job 12:13
“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Job 32:7
I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

Proverbs 27:10
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.

Jeremiah 42:2
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,

Jeremiah 42:3
that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”

Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”

Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, “May Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don’t do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God sends you to tell us.

Jeremiah 42:20
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.’

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Psalms 16:7
I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

Psalms 73:24
You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Psalms 107:11
because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.

Zechariah 14:7
It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh—not day, and not night; but it will come to pass that at evening time there will be light.

Revelation 3:18
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.

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2 Samuel 17:14
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

1 Kings 12:8
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.

Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Proverbs 1:3
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

Proverbs 1:4
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man—

Proverbs 5:1
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Isaiah 30:1
“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

Hebrews 12:25
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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Proverbs 2:6
For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:7
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

Proverbs 2:8
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

Proverbs 2:9
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

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Proverbs 4:10
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

Jeremiah 9:20
Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

John 3:32
What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.

John 3:33
He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

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Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Proverbs 9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Titus 1:13
This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Titus 2:15
Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

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Proverbs 16:25
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Proverbs 19:22
That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

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Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

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Proverbs 19:26
He who robs his father and drives away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

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Psalms 119:11
I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Proverbs 4:1
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

Proverbs 7:4
Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

Proverbs 8:32
“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

Proverbs 8:33
Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

Proverbs 8:36
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

Proverbs 15:32
He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Proverbs 22:17
Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

Isaiah 55:3
Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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Psalms 32:9
Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Isaiah 28:9
Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

Isaiah 28:10
For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

Isaiah 28:11
But he will speak to this nation with stammering lips and in another language,

Isaiah 28:12
to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to the weary,” and “This is the refreshing;” yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 42:23
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?

Jeremiah 5:3
O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Jeremiah 6:8
Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you, lest I make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.”

Jeremiah 6:9
Yahweh of Armies says, “They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine. Turn again your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.”

Jeremiah 6:10
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Jeremiah 9:12
Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

Jeremiah 35:13
“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.

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Ecclesiastes 4:13
Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

Jeremiah 38:15
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to death? If I give you counsel, you will not listen to me.”

Jeremiah 38:16
So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, “As Yahweh lives, who made our souls, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.”

Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you will go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then your soul will live, and this city will not be burned with fire. You will live, along with your house.

Jeremiah 38:18
But if you will not go out to the king of Babylon’s princes, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you won’t escape out of their hand.’ ”

Jeremiah 38:19
Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”

Jeremiah 38:20
But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

Jeremiah 38:21
But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

Jeremiah 38:22
‘Behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah’s house will be brought out to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women will say, “Your familiar friends have turned on you, and have prevailed over you. Your feet are sunk in the mire, they have turned away from you.”

Jeremiah 38:23
They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’ ”

Jeremiah 38:24
Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “Let no man know of these words, and you won’t die.

Jeremiah 38:25
But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and tell you, ‘Declare to us now what you have said to the king; don’t hide it from us, and we will not put you to death; also tell us what the king said to you;’

Jeremiah 38:26
then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’ ”

Jeremiah 38:27
Then all the princes came to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they stopped speaking with him, for the matter was not perceived.

Jeremiah 38:28
So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

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Ezekiel 2:8
But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

Ezekiel 3:1
He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find. Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 3:2
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.

Ezekiel 3:3
He said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your belly and your bowels with it.” Then I ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

Ezekiel 3:10
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.

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Proverbs 22:24
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man. Don’t associate with one who harbors anger,

Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.

Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Acts 6:2
The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.

Acts 6:3
Therefore, select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Acts 6:4
But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

Acts 6:5
These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

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