For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.

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

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.

Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

Then I will teach rebels your merciful ways, and sinners will turn to you.

Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

I will listen to what God the Lord says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.

Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

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.

They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.

They acted like fools in their rebellious ways, and suffered because of their sins.

He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

May the Lord repay my accusers in this way, those who say evil things about me!

I told you about my ways and you answered me. Teach me your statutes!

Yes indeed, the man who fears the Lord will be blessed in this way.

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

O Lord, do not let the wicked have their way! Do not allow their plan to succeed when they attack! (Selah)

May I hear about your loyal love in the morning, for I trust in you. Show me the way I should go, because I long for you.

My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity -- every good way.

to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

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

whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

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

Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.

Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.

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

Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;

I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths.

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

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

Make the path for your feet level, so that all your ways may be established.

For the ways of a person are in front of the Lord's eyes, and the Lord weighs all that person's paths.

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways -- do not wander into her pathways;

Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

At the top of the elevated places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she takes her stand;

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

"So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."

calling out to those who are passing by her in the way, who go straight on their way.

The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.

The way of the Lord is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

The righteousness of the blameless will make straight their way, but the wicked person will fall by his own wickedness.

The Lord abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.

The way of a fool is right in his own opinion, but the one who listens to advice is wise.

The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

The one who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord, but the one who is perverted in his ways despises him.

The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.

The Lord abhors the way of the wicked, but he loves those who pursue righteousness.

Severe discipline is for the one who abandons the way; the one who hates reproof will die.

The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is like a highway.

All a person's ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives.

When a person's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.

The highway of the upright is to turn away from evil; the one who guards his way safeguards his life.

There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.

A wicked person receives a bribe secretly to pervert the ways of justice.

A person's folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the Lord.

The one who obeys commandments guards his life; the one who despises his ways will die.

"It's worthless! It's worthless!" says the buyer, but when he goes on his way, he boasts.

The steps of a person are ordained by the Lord -- so how can anyone understand his own way?

All of a person's ways seem right in his own opinion, but the Lord evaluates the motives.

The way of the guilty person is devious, but as for the pure, his way is upright.

The one who wanders from the way of wisdom will end up in the company of the departed.

A wicked person shows boldness with his face, but as for the upright, he discerns his ways.

Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.

Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;

Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

A poor person who walks in his integrity is better than one who is perverse in his ways even though he is rich.

The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.

The one who walks blamelessly will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will fall at once.

the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman.

This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have not done wrong."

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

She watches over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.

The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.

The gloom will be dispelled for those who were anxious. In earlier times he humiliated the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali; but now he brings honor to the way of the sea, the region beyond the Jordan, and Galilee of the nations.

But he does not agree with this, his mind does not reason this way, for his goal is to destroy, and to eliminate many nations.

The Lord who commands armies is about to beat them with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt.

My heart cries out because of Moab's plight, and for the fugitives stretched out as far as Zoar and Eglath Shelishiyah. For they weep as they make their way up the ascent of Luhith; they loudly lament their demise on the road to Horonaim.

Later the Lord explained, "In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush,

The way of the righteous is level, the path of the righteous that you make is straight.

So in this way Jacob's sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.

Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel."

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.

Indeed, this is what the Lord says to me: "The Lord will be like a growling lion, like a young lion growling over its prey. Though a whole group of shepherds gathers against it, it is not afraid of their shouts or intimidated by their yelling. In this same way the Lord who commands armies will descend to do battle on Mount Zion and on its hill.

A thoroughfare will be there -- it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it; it is reserved for those authorized to use it -- fools will not stray into it.