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Bible verses for difficult decisions
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It should be said clearly: no verse on this page, and no verse produced by this site's random selection, is an instruction about your decision. Treating a randomly surfaced passage as a personal directive is a way of outsourcing a choice, and it can go badly.
What the passages here do address is how people decide well: seeking counsel, not rushing, being honest about motives, and accepting that you may not know the outcome in advance.
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Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counsellors they are established.
But 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.
Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counsellors there is victory.
There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the LORD’s counsel will prevail.
4Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths. 5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.
For 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?
5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. 6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
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