'Ways' in the Bible

And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;

So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.

Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam the son of Solomon for three years; for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

but sought the God of his father, and walked in (obeyed) His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not depart from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord.

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done (for he married the daughter of Ahab), and he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful [to God] as the house of Ahab was unfaithful, and you have also murdered your brothers, your father’s house (your own family), who were better than you,

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,

Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

When they were in their kingdom,with Your abundant goodness that You gave them,and in the spacious and fertile land You set before them,they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

Then Haman told them about his splendid wealth, the number of his sons, all the ways the king had honored him, and that he had promoted him above all the other officials and ministers of the king.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Repent! Let there be no injustice; Change your ways! My vindication is at stake.

“So are the paths of all who forget God;And the hope of the godless will perish,

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

“Nevertheless the righteous will hold to his ways,And he who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

“My feet have carefully followed His steps;I have kept His ways and not turned aside.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

Concerning what people do:by the word of Your lipsI have avoided the ways of the violent.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

All the Lord’s ways show faithful love and truthto those who keep His covenant and decrees.

For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

Do not drag me away with the wicked,with the evildoers,who speak in friendly ways with their neighborswhile malice is in their hearts.

For they do not speak in friendly ways,but contrive deceitful schemesagainst those who live peacefully in the land.

He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.

All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

You crown the year with Your goodness;Your ways overflow with plenty.

Let your ways be known by all the nations of the earth, along with your deliverance.

Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,The hairy scalp of one who goes on in his guilty ways.

When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

I will listen to what God will say;surely the Lord will declare peaceto His people, His godly ones,and not let them go back to foolish ways.

Teach me your ways, LORD, that I may walk in your truth; let me wholeheartedly revere your name.

You have set our unjust ways before You,our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

but mingled with the nationsand adopted their ways.

Fools suffered afflictionbecause of their rebellious ways and their sins.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh's law.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

Turn my eyesfrom looking at what is worthless;give me life in Your ways.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

I have kept back my feet from all evil ways, so that I might be true to your word.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.