'Ways' in the Bible

And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.

But if he shall any ways make them void after that he hath heard them; then he shall bear her iniquity.

Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.

The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.

Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.

And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.

Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

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

So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

{A Song of degrees.} Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

To call passengers who go right on their ways:

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.