Proverbs 24:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: And in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For by wise counsel you can wage your war, and in an abundance of counselors there is victory and safety.

American Standard Version (1901)

For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war; And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Common English Bible

You should make war with guidance; victory comes with many counselors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For war is undertaken in an orderly manner, and safety shall be where there are many counsels.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Proverbs 24:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 22:4

He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done; for after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.

Proverbs 11:14

Where there is no guidance, a people falls; but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Proverbs 15:22

Without counsel plans go wrong, but with many advisers they succeed.

Proverbs 20:18

Plans are established by counsel; by wise guidance wage war.

Luke 14:31

Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.