'Ways' in the Bible

{A Song of degrees.} Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

The Lord protects foreignersand helps the fatherless and the widow,but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.

To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

for her house sinks down to deathand her ways to the land of the departed spirits.

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Then you will walk in the confidence of your ways, and your foot will not stumble.

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

I have instructed you in the way of [skillful and godly] wisdom;I have led you in upright paths.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

"Yahweh possessed me, [the] first of his ways, before his acts {of old}.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness.

Devious minds are abhorrent to the LORD, but those whose ways are innocent are his delight.

A man will be commended according to his insight and sound judgment,But the one who is of a perverse mind will be despised.

A righteous man is careful in dealing with his neighbor,but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

The wisdom of the sensible is to understand his way,But the foolishness of [shortsighted] fools is deceit.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

The {mind} of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

[Away] from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways?

All a man’s ways seem right to him,but the Lord evaluates the motives.

A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the upright, he establisheth his ways.

Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;

Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

“I, even I, have spoken; indeed I have called him,I have brought him, and He will make his ways successful.

That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Thou wast wearied by the multitude of thy ways; but thou saidst not, It is of no avail. Thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not sick of it.

I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart.

I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

They have not known the path of peace,and there is no justice in their ways.They have made their roads crooked;no one who walks on them will know peace.

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.

"A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God.