Thematic Bible: Way


Thematic Bible





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.


“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.

Good sense wins favor,
but the way of the treacherous never changes.

The Lord detests the way of the wicked,
but He loves the one who pursues righteousness.




The path of the righteous is level;
You clear a straight path for the righteous.

that the Lord your God may tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”




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.


“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.

Good sense wins favor,
but the way of the treacherous never changes.

The Lord detests the way of the wicked,
but He loves the one who pursues righteousness.




The path of the righteous is level;
You clear a straight path for the righteous.

that the Lord your God may tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”



This is what the Lord says:

Stand by the roadways and look.
Ask about the ancient paths:
Which is the way to what is good?
Then take it
and find rest for yourselves.
But they protested, “We won’t!”

Let whoever is wise understand these things,
and whoever is insightful recognize them.
For the ways of the Lord are right,
and the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.

A road will be there and a way; it will be called the Holy Way. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks the path. Even the fool will not go astray. There will be no lion there, and no vicious beast will go up on it; they will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk [on it],


and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

But I confess this to you: I worship my fathers’ God according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing all the things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

Since Felix was accurately informed about the Way, he adjourned the hearing, saying, “When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case.”

During that time there was a major disturbance about the Way.




by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh),



The Holy Spirit was making it clear that the way into the most holy place had not yet been disclosed while the first tabernacle was still standing.



Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye?


“Enter through the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who go through it.


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