TOPICAL BIBLE
Prudence
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Proverbs 22:26Be thou not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.Proverbs 22:27If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?Proverbs 23:1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;Proverbs 23:2And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.Proverbs 23:3Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.Proverbs 23:9Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.Proverbs 24:6For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war; And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.Proverbs 25:8Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.Proverbs 25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself, And disclose not the secret of another;Proverbs 25:10Lest he that heareth it revile thee, And thine infamy turn not away.Proverbs 26:4Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him.Proverbs 26:5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own conceit.Proverbs 27:12A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it.Proverbs 29:8Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.Proverbs 29:11A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth it back and stilleth it.Ecclesiastes 7:16Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?Ecclesiastes 7:17Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?Ecclesiastes 8:2I counsel thee, Keep the king’s command, and that in regard of the oath of God.Ecclesiastes 8:3Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.Ecclesiastes 10:1Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.Ecclesiastes 10:10If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.Jeremiah 26:17Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear Jehovah, and entreat the favor of Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.Jeremiah 26:20And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.Jeremiah 26:21And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.Jeremiah 26:22And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;Jeremiah 26:23and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.Daniel 1:8But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king’s dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.Daniel 1:9Now God made Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.Daniel 1:10And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths that are of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king.Daniel 1:11Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:Daniel 1:12Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.Daniel 1:13Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the youths that eat of the king’s dainties; and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.Daniel 1:14So he hearkened unto them in this matter, and proved them ten days.Hosea 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.Amos 5:13Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.Matthew 1:19And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.Matthew 5:25Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art with him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.Matthew 5:26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.Matthew 7:6Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.Matthew 9:30And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.Matthew 12:15And Jesus perceiving it withdrew from thence: and many followed him; and he healed them all,Matthew 12:16and charged them that they should not make him known:Matthew 16:20Then charged he the disciples that they should tell no man that he was the Christ.Mark 3:7And Jesus with his disciples withdrew to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judæa,Mark 3:12And he charged them much that they should not make him known.Mark 5:43And he charged them much that no man should know this: and he commanded that something should be given her to eat.Mark 7:36And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it.Mark 8:30And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.Mark 9:9And as they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, save when the Son of man should have risen again from the dead.Luke 14:28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?Luke 14:29Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,Luke 14:30saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.Luke 14:31Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?Luke 14:32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and asketh conditions of peace.John 7:10But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many signs.