14 occurrences

'Way of Life' in the Bible

Surely this is the joy of his way of life;yet others will sprout from the dust.

Your way of life and your actionshave brought this on you.This is your punishment. It is very bitter,because it has reached your heart!

I have appointed you to be an assayer among My people—a refiner—so you may know and assay their way of life.

“But you must say to this people, ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, I am presenting to you the way of life and the way of death.

For the land is full of adulterers;the land mourns because of the curse,and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.Their way of life has become evil,and their power is not rightly used

He announced, ‘Turn, each of you, from your evil way of life and from your evil deeds. Live in the land the Lord gave to you and your ancestors long ago and forever.

Perhaps they will listen and return—each from his evil way of life—so that I might relent concerning the disaster that I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

Time and time again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: Turn, each one from his evil way of life, and correct your actions. Stop following other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I gave you and your ancestors. But you would not pay attention or obey Me.

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.

For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it.

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