Guidance & Direction Verses
Let God's word be a lamp to your feet. Verses on divine direction, purpose, and life's calling.
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also {in the likeness} of {his} resurrection:
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to {his} purpose.
(For {the children} being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, {of} the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, {of Elias: Gr. in Elias?}