Guidance & Direction Verses
Let God's word be a lamp to your feet. Verses on divine direction, purpose, and life's calling.
The fear of the LORD {is} to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: {lead: or, walk}
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
Then I was by him, {as} one brought up {with him}: and I was daily {his} delight, rejoicing always before him;
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed {are they that} keep my ways.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. {the substance...: or, the wicked for their wickedness}
He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
He {is in} the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth. {erreth: or, causeth to err}
The way of the LORD {is} strength to the upright: but destruction {shall be} to the workers of iniquity.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.