'Ways' in the Bible

If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

What I am commanding you today is to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to obey his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances. Then you will live and become numerous and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you are about to possess.

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

But his sons did not follow his ways. Instead, they made money dishonestly, accepted bribes, and perverted justice.

They said to him, "Look, you are old, and your sons don't follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have."

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

All of Adonijah's guests panicked; they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He continued in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.

But they did not repudiate the sinful ways of the family of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. There was even an Asherah pole standing in Samaria.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. During his reign,

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, "Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands."

The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate them.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?

Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person's steps.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

Make me understand your ways, O Lord! Teach me your paths!

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.

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

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.

They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

"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."

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

It is me -- I stir him up and commission him; I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe," says the Lord who commands armies.

Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways, and make our minds stubborn so that we do not obey you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance!

"A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God.

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.

They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

"I will punish them in four different ways: I will have war kill them. I will have dogs drag off their dead bodies. I will have birds and wild beasts devour and destroy their corpses.

For I see everything they do. Their wicked ways are not hidden from me. Their sin is not hidden away where I cannot see it.

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

But if they had stood in my inner circle, they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.

He said through them, 'Each of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you are doing. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession.

(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord.

You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment in your hand.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone -- gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways!

I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.

The Lord also has a covenant lawsuit against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in them the rebellious stumble.

But have my words and statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, not outlived your fathers? Then they paid attention and confessed, 'The Lord who rules over all has indeed done what he said he would do to us, because of our sinful ways.'"

And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High. For you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be brought low, and the crooked will be made straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth,

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how fathomless his ways!

For this reason, I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and faithful son in the Lord. He will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.