Ways

And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”

When you bring to the LORD the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he shall take it to the altar.

If someone incurs guilt in one of these ways, he must confess the sin he has committed,

Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.

You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—

…be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

…and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.

Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.

The LORD will establish you as His holy people, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in His ways.

…and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.

For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside toward dishonest gain, accepting bribes and perverting justice.

“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”

…and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.

For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from 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 your God to walk in His ways and to keep His statutes, commandments, ordinances, and decrees, as written in the Law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you turn,

So if you walk in My ways and keep My statutes and commandments, just as your father David did, I will prolong your days.”

…be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of all men—

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

For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.

If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

Even after these events, Jeroboam did not repent of his evil ways, but again he appointed priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained anyone who desired to be a priest of the high places.

For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.

And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

Yet through all His prophets and seers, the LORD warned Israel and Judah, saying, “Turn from your wicked ways and keep My commandments and statutes, according to the entire Law that I commanded your fathers and delivered to you through My servants the prophets.”

He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

…be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—

…so that they may fear You and walk in Your ways all the days they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

…and if 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, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Now the rest of the acts of Abijah, along with his ways and his words, are written in the Treatise of the Prophet Iddo.

Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,

And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.

Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,

…but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.

Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.

So Jotham grew powerful because he ordered his ways before the LORD his God.

As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.

As for the rest of the acts of Ahaz and all his ways, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

Is your reverence not your confidence, and the uprightness of your ways your hope?

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.

He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.

Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.

Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.

For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.

…because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

As for the deeds of men—by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

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

Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths.

All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.

Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.

For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.

…that Your ways may be known on earth, Your salvation among all nations.

Surely God will crush the heads of His enemies, the hairy crowns of those who persist in guilty ways.

If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.

Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.

They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.

Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!

I will meditate on Your precepts and regard Your ways.

I recounted my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes.

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

I obey Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You.

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!

They will sing of the ways of the LORD, for the glory of the LORD is great.

You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?