'Ways' in the Bible

He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

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

The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?

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 he gives to every man the reward of his work, and sees that he gets the fruit of his ways.

For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.

Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,

He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

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 ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

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.

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.

I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.

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

The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways.

If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

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 give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

They do no evil; they go in his ways.

If only my ways were ordered so that I might keep your rules!

I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.

I put the record of my ways before you, and you gave me an answer: O give me knowledge of your rules.

Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.

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

I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.

Happy is the worshipper of the Lord, who is walking in his ways.

They will make songs about the ways of the Lord; for great is the glory of the Lord.

You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.

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:

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

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

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

In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

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

The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight

He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.

All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.

When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

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.

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

For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in 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 man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.

He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.

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

Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

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.

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

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 the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, 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:

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 up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

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 sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says 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.

I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.

I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad.

Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near 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.

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 no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.