'Walk' in the Bible

Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you."

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they will walk in my law or not?

warn them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work they must do.

However, this you may eat from all the winged swarming things that walk on all fours, which have jointed legs to hop with on the land.

All that walk on their paws among all the creatures that walk on all fours are unclean to you. Anyone who touches their carcass will be unclean until the evening,

You must not do as they do in the land of Egypt where you have been living, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan into which I am about to bring you; you must not walk in their statutes.

You must observe my regulations and you must be sure to walk in my statutes. I am the Lord your God.

You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

"'If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.

"'If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

"'If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

"'If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

Walk just as he has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land you are going to possess.

and you must teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

Teach them to your children and speak of them as you sit in your house, as you walk along the road, as you lie down, and as you get up.

Nobody will be able to resist you; the Lord your God will spread the fear and terror of you over the whole land on which you walk, just as he promised you.

and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.

Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says, "I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit." This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.

For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions."

and commanded the people: "When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here and walk behind it.

Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me.

When the men started out, Joshua told those going to map out the land, "Go, walk through the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will draw lots for you before the Lord here in Shiloh."

Joshua left those nations to test Israel. I wanted to see whether or not the people would carefully walk in the path marked out by the Lord, as their ancestors were careful to do."

You who ride on light-colored female donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, you who walk on the road, pay attention!

She then said to her father, "Please grant me this one wish. For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity."

David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. David said to Saul, "I can't walk in these things, for I'm not used to them." So David removed them.

Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. They put the ones who couldn't walk on donkeys. They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

And day after day Mordecai used to walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem in order to learn how Esther was doing and what might happen to her.

Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.

I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.

I will pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?"

For you are the God who shelters me. Why do you reject me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?

They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession and enter the royal palace.

Walk around Zion! Encircle it! Count its towers!

Consider its defenses! Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God's temple we would walk together among the crowd.

Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.

I will walk in the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will conduct my business with integrity in the midst of my palace.

I will favor the honest people of the land, and allow them to live with me. Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me.

hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

Guide me in the path of your commands, for I delight to walk in it.

(Nun) Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.

Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, you revive me. You oppose my angry enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

Then you will walk on your way with security, and you will not stumble.

When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.

Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.

When you walk about, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you wake up, they will talk to you.

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

I considered all the living who walk on earth, as well as the successor who would arise in his place.

O descendants of Jacob, come, let us walk in the Lord's guiding light.

The Lord says, "The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.

The Lord will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals.

So the Lord's word to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured.

You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying, "This is the correct way, walk in it," whether you are heading to the right or the left.

"I thought, 'In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.'

What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.

But those who wait for the Lord's help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles' wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.

When you pass through the waters, I am with you; when you pass through the streams, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not harm you.

This is what the Lord says: "The profit of Egypt and the revenue of Ethiopia, along with the Sabeans, those tall men, will be brought to you and become yours. They will walk behind you, coming along in chains. They will bow down to you and pray to you: 'Truly God is with you; he has no peer; there is no other God!'"

Look, all of you who start a fire and who equip yourselves with flaming arrows, walk in the light of the fire you started and among the flaming arrows you ignited! This is what you will receive from me: you will lie down in a place of pain.

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, 'Lie down, so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you."

I wish I had a lodging place in the desert where I could spend some time like a weary traveler. Then I would desert my people and walk away from them because they are all unfaithful to God, a congregation of people that has been disloyal to him.

Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you."

Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.

He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!

On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

Do two walk together without having met?

So Jonah went immediately to Nineveh, as the Lord had said. (Now Nineveh was an enormous city -- it required three days to walk through it!)

When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"

For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.

Therefore the Lord says this: "Look, I am devising disaster for this nation! It will be like a yoke from which you cannot free your neck. You will no longer walk proudly, for it will be a time of catastrophe.

I listened and my stomach churned; the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, and I shook as I tried to walk. I long for the day of distress to come upon the people who attack us.

Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, "These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk about on the earth."

All these strong ones are scattering; they have sought permission to go and walk about over the earth." The Lord had said, "Go! Walk about over the earth!" So they are doing so.

Thus I will strengthen them by my power, and they will walk about in my name," says the Lord.

Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven' or to say, 'Stand up and walk'?

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Stand up, take your stretcher, and walk'?

The girl got up at once and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). They were completely astonished at this.

Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Stand up and walk'?

So he answered them, "Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!"

Then he said to them, "What are these matters you are discussing so intently as you walk along?" And they stood still, looking sad.