Bible Verses About Bad Counsel

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

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:

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.

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.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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

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

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.