Bible Verses about “bad counsel”

“¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”

“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”

“¶ Where no counsel [is], the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.”

“¶ He that walketh with wise [men] shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”

“¶ Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.”

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

“¶ [There are] many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.”

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

“For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors [there is] safety.”

“¶ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.”

“¶ Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.”

“¶ The thoughts of the righteous [are] right: [but] the counsels of the wicked [are] deceit.”

“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:”

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD.”

“And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?”

“And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou [it] lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little [finger] shall be thicker than my father's loins.”

“And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

“And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, [was] as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so [was] all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.”

“But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.”

“And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father's concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that [are] with thee be strong.”

“¶ And it was [so], that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me [the thing that is] right, as my servant Job [hath].”

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

“So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.”