Luke 7:30. But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Luke 23:51. (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them; ) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.
Acts 2:23. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Acts 4:28. For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
Acts 5:38. And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
Acts 13:36. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
Acts 20:27. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Acts 27:12. And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
Acts 27:42. And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
1 Corinthians 4:5. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
Ephesians 1:11. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Hebrews 6:17. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Genesis 49:6. O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Numbers 16:2. And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
Deuteronomy 32:28. For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
Judges 19:30. And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Judges 20:7. Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
2 Samuel 15:31. And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
2 Samuel 15:34. But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
2 Samuel 16:20. Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
2 Samuel 16:23. 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.
2 Samuel 17:7. And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath given is not good at this time.
2 Samuel 17:14. And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
2 Samuel 17:23. And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
1 Kings 12:8. 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:
1 Kings 12:13. And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
1 Kings 12:14. And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
1 Kings 12:24. Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Kings 18:20. Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words, ) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
1 Chronicles 12:19. And there fell some of Manasseh to David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not: for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.
2 Chronicles 10:8. But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.
2 Chronicles 10:13. And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,
2 Chronicles 10:14. And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
2 Chronicles 22:5. He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramothgilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.
Ezra 4:5. And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
Ezra 10:8. And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
Nehemiah 4:15. And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
Tobit 4:19. Seek counsel always of a wise man.
Judith 2:2. And he called all the ancients, and all the governors, and his officers of war, and communicated to them the secret of his counsel:
Judith 2:4. And when this saying pleased them all, Nabuchodonosor, the king, called Holofernes the general of his armies,
Judith 8:16. And therefore let us humble our souls before him, and continuing in an humble spirit, in his service:
Esther 4:17. So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
Esther 9:31. To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Job 5:12. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 10:3. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 12:13. With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
Job 18:7. The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
Job 22:18. Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 29:21. Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
Job 38:2. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
Psalm 1:1. 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.
Psalm 1:5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Psalm 13:3. Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Psalm 14:6. Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
Psalm 20:5. We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
Psalm 21:12. Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Psalm 33:10. The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
Psalm 33:11. The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Psalm 66:5. Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Psalm 73:24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
Psalm 89:8. O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?
Psalm 106:13. They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Psalm 106:43. Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
Psalm 107:11. Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Psalm 111:1. Praise ye the LORD. I will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright, and in the congregation.
Proverbs 1:25. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Proverbs 1:30. They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 2:11. Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 2:17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 3:21. My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs 8:12. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Proverbs 8:14. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
Proverbs 9:10. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Proverbs 11:13. A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
Proverbs 11:14. Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 15:22. Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
Proverbs 19:21. There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Proverbs 20:5. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Proverbs 21:30. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Proverbs 22:20. Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
Proverbs 31:4. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Ecclesiastes 2:12. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
Wisdom of Solomon 6:3. Give ear, you that rule the people, and that please yourselves in multitudes of nations:
Wisdom of Solomon 6:4. For power is given you by the Lord, and strength by the most High, who will examine your works: and search out your thoughts:
Wisdom of Solomon 9:13. For who among men is he that can know the counsel of God? or who can think what the will of God is?
Wisdom of Solomon 9:17. And who shall know thy thought, except thou give wisdom, and send thy holy Spirit from above:
Sirach 6:2. Extol not thyself in the thoughts of thy soul like a bull: lest thy strength be quashed by folly,
Sirach 19:22. There is an exquisite subtilty, and the same is unjust.
Sirach 21:13. The perfection of the fear of God is wisdom and understanding.
Sirach 22:16. Turn away from him, and thou shalt find rest, and shalt not be wearied out with his folly.
Sirach 23:1. O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them.
Sirach 24:29. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.
Sirach 25:4. A poor man that is proud: a rich man that is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting.
Sirach 25:5. The things that thou hast not gathered in thy youth, how shalt thou find them in thy old age?
Sirach 30:21. He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.
Sirach 32:18. He that feareth the Lord, will receive his discipline: and they that will seek him early, shall find a blessing.
Sirach 32:19. He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
Sirach 37:7. Consult not with him that layeth a snare for thee, and hide thy counsel from them that envy thee.
Sirach 37:10. Lest he thrust a stake into the ground, and say to thee:
Sirach 37:13. Nor with the ungodly of piety, nor with the dishonest of honesty, nor with the field laborer of every work,
Sirach 37:16. Whose soul is according to thy own soul: and who, when thou shalt stumble in the dark, will be sorry for thee.
Sirach 38:33. He fashioneth the clay with his arm, and boweth down his strength before his feet:
Sirach 39:7. He will open his mouth in prayer, and will make supplication for his sins.
Sirach 40:25. Gold and silver make the feet stand sure: but wise counsel is above them both.
Sirach 47:23. That thou shouldst make the kingdom to be divided, and out of Ephraim a rebellious kingdom to rule.
Isaiah 3:9. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
Isaiah 4:2. In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
Isaiah 5:19. That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Isaiah 7:5. Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
Isaiah 7:7. Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
Isaiah 8:10. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 10:25. For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
Isaiah 11:2. 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;
Isaiah 14:26. This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Isaiah 19:3. And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Isaiah 19:11. Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
Isaiah 19:17. And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
Isaiah 25:1. O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Isaiah 25:7. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
Isaiah 28:8. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
Isaiah 29:15. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Isaiah 30:1. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Isaiah 31:6. Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Isaiah 32:7. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Isaiah 32:8. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Isaiah 36:5. I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
Isaiah 41:21. Produce your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.
Isaiah 44:25. That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
Isaiah 44:26. That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Isaiah 46:10. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
Isaiah 47:13. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Isaiah 55:7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:8. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 18:18. Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Jeremiah 18:23. Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.
Jeremiah 19:7. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
Jeremiah 32:19. Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jeremiah 49:7. Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Jeremiah 49:20. Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
Jeremiah 49:30. Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
Jeremiah 50:45. Therefore hear ye the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
Ezekiel 7:26. Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Ezekiel 11:2. Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
Ezekiel 27:9. The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
Daniel 2:14. Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon:
Daniel 6:6. Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
Daniel 7:8. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Hosea 10:6. It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
Micah 4:9. Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
Micah 4:12. But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
Micah 6:16. For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
Zechariah 6:13. Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
1 Maccabees 2:65. And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel: give ear to him always, and he shall be a father to you.
1 Maccabees 4:45. And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so they threw it down.
1 Maccabees 7:31. And Nicanor knew that his counsel was discovered: and he went out to fight against Judas, near Capharsalama.
1 Maccabees 8:4. And had conquered places that were very far off from them, and kings that came against them from the ends of the earth, and had overthrown them with great slaughter: and the rest pay them tribute every year.
1 Maccabees 9:60. And he arose to come with a great army: and he sent secretly letters to his adherents that were in Judea to seize upon Jonathan, and them that were with him: but they could not, for their design was known to them.
1 Maccabees 9:68. And they fought against Bacchides, and he was discomfited by them: and they afflicted him exceedingly, for his counsel, and his enterprise was in vain.
1 Maccabees 14:22. And we registered what was said by them in the councils of the people, in this manner: Numenius, the son of Antiochus, and Antipater, the son of Jason, ambassadors of the Jews, came to us to renew the former friendship with us.
2 Maccabees 14:5. But having gotten a convenient time to further his madness, being called to counsel by Demetrius, and asked what the Jews relied upon, and what were their counsels,
