TOPICAL BIBLE
Prudence
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Proverbs 22:26Be not thou [one] of them that strike hands, [or] of them that are sureties for debts.Proverbs 22:27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?Proverbs 23:1When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what [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: for they [are] deceitful meat.Proverbs 23:9Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.Proverbs 24:6For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers [there is] safety.Proverbs 24:27Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.Proverbs 25:8Go not forth hastily to strive, lest [thou know not] what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.Proverbs 25:9Debate thy cause with thy neighbour [himself]; and discover not a secret to another:Proverbs 25:10Lest he that heareth [it] put thee to shame, 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] foreseeth the evil, [and] hideth himself; [but] the simple pass on, [and] are punished.Proverbs 29:8Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise [men] turn away wrath.Proverbs 29:11A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise [man] keepeth it in till afterwards.Ecclesiastes 7:16Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?Ecclesiastes 7:17Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?Ecclesiastes 8:2I [counsel thee] to keep the king’s commandment, and [that] in regard of the oath of God.Ecclesiastes 8:3Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.Ecclesiastes 10:1Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: [so doth] a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom [and] honour.Ecclesiastes 10:10If the iron be blunt, and he 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 Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] 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 at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.Jeremiah 26:20And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who 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 Urijah 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 Urijah 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 portion of the king’s meat, 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 had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with 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 meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which [are] of your sort? then shall ye make [me] endanger my head to the king.Daniel 1:11Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set 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 children that eat of the portion of the king’s meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.Daniel 1:14So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.Hosea 14:9Who [is] wise, and he shall understand these [things]? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD [are] right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.Matthew 1:19Then Joseph her husband, being a just [man], and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.Matthew 5:25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time 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 hast paid the uttermost farthing.Matthew 7:6Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.Matthew 9:30And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See [that] no man know [it].Matthew 12:14Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.Matthew 12:15But when Jesus knew [it], he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;Matthew 12:16And charged them that they should not make him known:Matthew 16:20Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.Mark 3:7But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,Mark 3:12And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.Mark 5:43And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and 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 came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.Luke 14:28For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have [sufficient] to finish [it]?Luke 14:29Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish [it], all that behold [it] begin to mock him,Luke 14:30Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.Luke 14:31Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be 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 desireth conditions of peace.John 7:10But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.John 11:47Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.