Advice

Human advice

A wise person seeks advice from others

Proverbs 12:15 KJV 1900

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

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Rejecting good advice can lead to disaster

Proverbs 1:30–31 KJV 1900

They would none of my counsel: They despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.

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Human advice can have unseen dangers

Proverbs 12:5 KJV 1900

5 The thoughts of the righteous are right: But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

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Examples of good human advice

Jethro; Hushai

Persian experts:

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Daniel; Gamaliel; Paul

Examples of bad human advice

Balaam

Ahithophel:

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Jeroboam; Egyptian advisers

Seeking advice from false gods is futile

Leviticus 19:31 KJV 1900

Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

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God needs no-one to advise him

Isaiah 40:13–14 KJV 1900

Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, Or being his counseller hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, And taught him in the path of judgment, And taught him knowledge, And shewed to him the way of understanding?

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God gives advice

To his people

Psalm 32:8 KJV 1900

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

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Through Jesus Christ and his Spirit

Isaiah 11:2 KJV 1900

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

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Through his word

2 Timothy 3:16 KJV 1900

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

God frustrates bad advice

1 Corinthians 1:19 KJV 1900

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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Examples of receiving God’s advice

David:

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Jehoshaphat:

1 Kings 22:5 KJV 1900

And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day.

Examples of rejecting God’s advice

Job:

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Israel:

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