Guidance & Direction Verses
Let God's word be a lamp to your feet. Verses on divine direction, purpose, and life's calling.
Take away the wicked {from} before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Lest he that heareth {it} put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
{As} he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, {and as} vinegar upon nitre, so {is} he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.
The north wind driveth away rain: so {doth} an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. {driveth...: or, bringeth forth rain: so doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance}
The slothful {man} saith, {There is} a lion in the way; a lion {is} in the streets.
Better {is} the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than {he that is} perverse {in his} ways, though he {be} rich.
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer {shall be} abomination.
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good {things} in possession.
Happy {is} the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.
Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but {he that is} perverse {in his} ways shall fall at once.
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise {men} turn away wrath. {bring...: or, set a city on fire}
An unjust man {is} an abomination to the just: and {he that is} upright in the way {is} abomination to the wicked.