Trouvé 334 Résultats pour: Wise Counsel
And to Adam he said, Thou hast listened to thy wife’s counsel, and hast eaten the fruit I forbade thee to eat; and now, through thy act, the ground is under a curse. All the days of thy life thou shalt win food from it with toil; (Genesis 3, 17)
But the children fell to struggling in her womb; How am I the better for conceiving, she asked, if this is to befall me? And she went to ask counsel from the Lord. (Genesis 25, 22)
and as soon as it was daylight, he sent in great confusion of mind for all the diviners and all the wise men of Egypt. When they answered his summons, he told them of his dream, without finding anyone who could interpret it. (Genesis 41, 8)
And make a burse,✻ from which thou wilt take counsel; it is to be of the same texture as the mantle itself, embroidered work of gold, and threads of blue and purple and scarlet twice-dyed, and twisted linen threads. (Exodus 28, 15)
And whenever Aaron goes into the sanctuary, he will carry on his breast, on the burse that gives counsel, the names of Israel’s sons, putting the Lord in mind of them eternally.✻ (Exodus 28, 29)
And within the burse that gives counsel thou wilt put the touchstones of wisdom and of truth.✻ These shall be on Aaron’s breast, when he enters the Lord’s presence; as long as he is there, he will be carrying on his breast the arbitrament of the sons of Israel. (Exodus 28, 30)
I have filled him with my divine spirit, making him wise, adroit, and skilful in every kind of craftsmanship; (Exodus 31, 3)
The Lord has filled this man with his divine spirit, making him wise, adroit, and skilful in every kind of craftsmanship, (Exodus 35, 31)
Keep them in honour and live by them; these are to be the arts, this the wisdom, that you teach the world, as men come to hear of these laws, and say to themselves, Surely they must be wise, surely they must be discerning folk, that belong to so great a nation as this! (Deuteronomy 4, 6)
Suffer none to whisper that counsel in thy ears, brother nor son nor daughter, nor the wife thou dost cherish in thy bosom, nor the friend thou lovest as thy own self. Whoever bids thee follow the worship of alien gods, unknown to thee and to thy fathers, (Deuteronomy 13, 6)
and listen to both parties, not moved by influence or bribery; such power a bribe has to rob even the wise of clear vision, to alter the sentence even of the just. (Deuteronomy 16, 19)
Hold fast, then, to the terms of this covenant, and fulfil them if you would order your lives as wise men do. (Deuteronomy 29, 9)
