Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

New American Standard Bible

Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way.

King James Version

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Holman Bible

Righteousness will go before Him
to prepare the way for His steps.

International Standard Version

Righteousness will go before him to prepare a path for his steps. A Davidic prayer

A Conservative Version

Righteousness shall go before him, and shall make his footsteps a path.

American Standard Version

Righteousness shall go before him, And shall make his footsteps a way to walk in .

Amplified


Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way [in which to walk].

Darby Translation

Righteousness shall go before him, and shall set his footsteps on the way.

Julia Smith Translation

Justice shall go before him, and shall set to the way of his steps.

King James 2000

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Righteousness will go before him, and it will make his steps a pathway.

Modern King James verseion

Righteousness shall go before Him and shall set us in the way of His steps.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Righteousness shall go before him, and prepare the way for his coming.

NET Bible

Deliverance goes before him, and prepares a pathway for him.

New Heart English Bible

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

The Emphasized Bible

Righteousness, before him, shall march long, - That he may make, into a way, the steps of its feet.

Webster

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

World English Bible

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps. A Prayer by David.

Youngs Literal Translation

Righteousness before Him goeth, And maketh His footsteps for a way!

Verse Info

Context Readings

Restoration Of Favor

12 The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase. 13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

Cross References

Psalm 89:14

The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Isaiah 58:8

Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

Psalm 72:2-3

May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

Psalm 119:35

Make me go in the way of your teachings; for they are my delight.

Matthew 20:27-28

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:

John 13:14-16

If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

John 13:34

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Galatians 2:20

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

Ephesians 5:1-2

Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;

Philippians 2:5-8

Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 12:1-2

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,

1 Peter 2:18-24

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.

1 Peter 4:1

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

1 John 2:6

He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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