Proverbs 20:18
With sound advice, plans are successful; if you're going to war, make sure you have good guidance.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
In Context
17Food you get by cheating may taste sweet, but afterwards it will be like a mouthful of gravel.
19A gossip goes around revealing secrets; stay away from people who talk a lot.
Cross References
Judges 9:29If I was the one in charge of you people, I would dispose of Abimelech! I would tell him, ‘Get your army together, and come and fight!’”
Judges 20:7So all of you Israelites have to decide here and now what you're going to do about it!”
Judges 20:23The Israelites went and cried before the Lord until the evening and asked, “Should we go and attack the Benjamites again, our relatives?” “Go and attack them,” the Lord replied.
2 Samuel 2:26Abner shouted to Joab: “Do we have to keep killing each other forever? Don't you realize that if we go on it'll only get worse? How long are you going to wait before you order your men to stop chasing their brothers?”
2 Kings 18:20You say you have a strategy and are ready for war, but these are empty words. Who are you relying on, now that you have rebelled against me?
Proverbs 11:14A nation falls without good guidance, but they are saved through much wise counsel.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:18
17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. Note, 1. Sin may possibly be pleasant in the commission: Bread of deceit, wealth gotten by fraud, by lying and oppression, may be sweet to a man, and the more sweet for its being ill-gotten, such pleasure does the carnal mind take in the success of its wicked projects. All the pleasures and profits of sin are bread of deceit. They are stolen, for they are forbidden fruit; and they will deceive men, for they are not what… Read the whole commentary →