'Ways' in the Bible

Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”

Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

“Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am commanding you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and hold fast to Him,

if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

You have today declared the Lord to be your God, and that you would walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments and His ordinances, and listen to His voice.

“The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.

The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

“The Lord shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out one way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.

in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it.

“The Rock! His work is perfect,For all His ways are just;A God of faithfulness and without injustice,Righteous and upright is He.

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.

“In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath,In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted,And travelers went by roundabout ways.

His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice.

and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”

David was prospering in all his ways for the Lord was with him.

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

“For I have kept the ways of the Lord,And have not acted wickedly against my God.

Keep the charge of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn,

If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”

then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,

that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers.

because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did.

Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men,

that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.

and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his words are written in the treatise of the prophet Iddo.

He took great pride in the ways of the Lord and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.

Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet saying, “Thus says the Lord God of your father David, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asa king of Judah,

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

So Jotham became mighty because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.

But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals.

Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

“Is not your fear of God your confidence,And the integrity of your ways your hope?

“Though He slay me,I will hope in Him.Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him.

“They say to God, ‘Depart from us!We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.

“Is there any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous,Or profit if you make your ways perfect?

“You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you;And light will shine on your ways.

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;They do not want to know its waysNor abide in its paths.

“He provides them with security, and they are supported;And His eyes are on their ways.

“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;And how faint a word we hear of Him!But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”

“On the right hand their brood arises;They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

“Does He not see my waysAnd number all my steps?

“For His eyes are upon the ways of a man,And He sees all his steps.

Because they turned aside from following Him,And had no regard for any of His ways;

“He is the first of the ways of God;Let his maker bring near his sword.

His ways prosper at all times;Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord,And have not wickedly departed from my God.

Make me know Your ways, O Lord;Teach me Your paths.

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.I said, “I will guard my waysThat I may not sin with my tongue;I will guard my mouth as with a muzzleWhile the wicked are in my presence.”

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,And sinners will be converted to You.

“Oh that My people would listen to Me,That Israel would walk in My ways!

For He will give His angels charge concerning you,To guard you in all your ways.

“For forty years I loathed that generation,And said they are a people who err in their heart,And they do not know My ways.

He made known His ways to Moses,His acts to the sons of Israel.

They also do no unrighteousness;They walk in His ways.

Oh that my ways may be establishedTo keep Your statutes!

I will meditate on Your preceptsAnd regard Your ways.

I have told of my ways, and You have answered me;Teach me Your statutes.

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity,And revive me in Your ways.

I considered my waysAnd turned my feet to Your testimonies.

I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies,For all my ways are before You.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,The Lord will lead them away with the doers of iniquity.Peace be upon Israel.

A Song of Ascents.How blessed is everyone who fears the Lord,Who walks in His ways.

And they will sing of the ways of the Lord,For great is the glory of the Lord.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

The Lord is righteous in all His waysAnd kind in all His deeds.

So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence;It takes away the life of its possessors.

From those who leave the paths of uprightnessTo walk in the ways of darkness;

Whose paths are crooked,And who are devious in their ways;

In all your ways acknowledge Him,And He will make your paths straight.

Her ways are pleasant waysAnd all her paths are peace.

Do not envy a man of violenceAnd do not choose any of his ways.

Watch the path of your feetAnd all your ways will be established.

She does not ponder the path of life;Her ways are unstable, she does not know it.

For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord,And He watches all his paths.

Go to the ant, O sluggard,Observe her ways and be wise,

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,Do not stray into her paths.

“Now therefore, O sons, listen to me,For blessed are they who keep my ways.

He who walks in integrity walks securely,But he who perverts his ways will be found out.

He who walks in his uprightness fears the Lord,But he who is devious in his ways despises Him.

The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways,But a good man will be satisfied with his.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight,But the Lord weighs the motives.

When a man’s ways are pleasing to the Lord,He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

A wicked man receives a bribe from the bosomTo pervert the ways of justice.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,But he who is careless of conduct will die.

Or you will learn his waysAnd find a snare for yourself.

Give me your heart, my son,And let your eyes delight in my ways.

Do not give your strength to women,Or your ways to that which destroys kings.

She looks well to the ways of her household,And does not eat the bread of idleness.

Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

And many peoples will come and say,“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,To the house of the God of Jacob;That He may teach us concerning His waysAnd that we may walk in His paths.”For the law will go forth from ZionAnd the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to plunderers?Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,And in whose ways they were not willing to walk,And whose law they did not obey?

“I have aroused him in righteousnessAnd I will make all his ways smooth;He will build My city and will let My exiles go free,Without any payment or reward,” says 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.