Sometimes people that care about us will tell us what we need to hear and not just what we want to hear.

We should seek wise counsel when faced with important decisions.

Be careful who you listen to.

We get in much more trouble when we don’t go to church.

Where there is no counsel, the people fall;
But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

7 "Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. 8 For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

Then the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying,"The men of Jabesh Gilead were the ones who buried Saul."

Therefore all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel.

Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them.

Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,

16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

The fear of man brings a snare,
But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.

And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, "This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!"

Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

19 say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."'20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.