“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. | For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. |
Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. | Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. |
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As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. | For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. |
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord. | Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord! |
The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does. | The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. |
Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways. | Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. |
Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him. | Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in his ways! |
Whoever keeps commandments keeps their life, but whoever shows contempt for their ways will die. | Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die. |
He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he. | The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. |
Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways. For the Lord detests the perverse but takes the upright into his confidence. | Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence. |
Observe the commands of the Lord your God, walking in obedience to him and revering him. | So you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. |
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever takes crooked paths will be found out. | Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes his ways crooked will be found out. |
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. | Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. |
A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart. | Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. |
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! | Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! |
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble. | Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble. |
Who is wise? Let them realize these things. Who is discerning? Let them understand. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. | Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the Lord are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them. |
When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. | God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness. |
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live? | Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? |
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. | 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 and will forgive their sin and heal their land. |
Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Turn from your evil ways and your evil practices.’ But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. | Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord. |
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. | Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! |
We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. | For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. |
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. | Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. |
Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. | Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. |