Proverbs 24:6
Good News Translation
After all, you must make careful plans before you fight a battle, and the more good advice you get, the more likely you are to win.

New Revised Standard Version
for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Contemporary English Version
Battles are won by listening to advice and making a lot of plans.

New American Bible
For by strategy war is waged, and victory depends on many counselors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.

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Proverbs 20:18 Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.

Luke 14:31 Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him?

1 Corinthians 9:25-27 And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one. . . .

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power.

1 Timothy 6:11,12 But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness. . . .

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.

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Proverbs 11:14 He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

Proverbs 15:22 Designs are brought to nothing where there is no counsel: but where there are many counsellors, they are established.

Context
Do not Envy
5A wise man is strong: and a knowing man, stout and valiant. 6Because war is managed by due ordering: and there shall be safety where there are many counsels.7Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he shall not open his mouth.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 22:4
So he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Achab did: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Proverbs 11:14
He shall be afflicted with evil, that is surety for a stranger: but he that is aware of snares, shall be secure.

Proverbs 20:18
Designs are strengthened by counsels: and wars are to be managed by governments.

Proverbs 24:5
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