TOPICAL BIBLE
Prudence
310 references in this topic.
Proverbs 22:26Don’t you be one of those who strike hands, of those who are collateral for debts.Proverbs 22:27If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?Proverbs 23:1When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;Proverbs 23:2put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.Proverbs 23:3Don’t be desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.Proverbs 23:9Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.Proverbs 24:6for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.Proverbs 24:27Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.Proverbs 25:8Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?Proverbs 25:9Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another;Proverbs 25:10lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart.Proverbs 26:4Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.Proverbs 26:5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.Proverbs 27:12A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.Proverbs 29:8Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.Proverbs 29:11A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.Ecclesiastes 7:16Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?Ecclesiastes 7:17Don’t be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?Ecclesiastes 8:2I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.Ecclesiastes 8:3Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,Ecclesiastes 10:1Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.Ecclesiastes 10:10If the axe is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.Jeremiah 26:17Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 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? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own souls.Jeremiah 26:20There was also a man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh, 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, 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 to Jehoiakim the king, who killed 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 1:10The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.Daniel 1:11Then Daniel said to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:Daniel 1:12Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.Daniel 1:13Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king’s dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.Daniel 1:14So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.Hosea 14:9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.Amos 5:13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.Matthew 1:19Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.Matthew 5:25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.Matthew 5:26Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there, until you have paid the last penny.Matthew 7:6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.Matthew 9:30Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, “See that no one knows about this.”Matthew 12:14But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.Matthew 12:15Jesus, perceiving that, withdrew from there. Great multitudes followed him; and he healed them all,Matthew 12:16and commanded them that they should not make him known:Matthew 16:20Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.Mark 3:7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,Mark 3:12He sternly warned them that they should not make him known.Mark 5:43He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and commanded that something should be given to her to eat.Mark 7:36He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.Mark 8:30He commanded them that they should tell no one about him.Mark 9:9As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.Luke 14:28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?Luke 14:29Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,Luke 14:30saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’Luke 14:31Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?Luke 14:32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.John 7:10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.John 11:47The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.