100 Bible Verses about Path

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 1,298 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 16:11 ESV / 1,130 helpful votes

You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Proverbs 4:26 ESV / 843 helpful votes

Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 840 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 25:4 ESV / 838 helpful votes

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.

Jeremiah 6:16 ESV / 798 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 761 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

John 14:6 ESV / 717 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Matthew 7:13 ESV / 695 helpful votes

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 687 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

Jeremiah 6:1-16:21 ESV / 669 helpful votes

Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise a signal on Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms out of the north, and great destruction. The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy, the daughter of Zion. Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her; they shall pasture, each in his place. “Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen! Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!” ...

Proverbs 4:1-26:28 ESV / 669 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

Proverbs 2:9 ESV / 657 helpful votes

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

Psalm 139:23-24 ESV / 650 helpful votes

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 619 helpful votes

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

Psalm 119:9 ESV / 609 helpful votes

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 608 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 606 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 603 helpful votes

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.

Psalm 25:8-9 ESV / 597 helpful votes

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.

Deuteronomy 5:33 ESV / 596 helpful votes

You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV / 593 helpful votes

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Psalm 143:10 ESV / 593 helpful votes

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!

Isaiah 26:8 ESV / 590 helpful votes

In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are the desire of our soul.

Psalm 18:35-36 ESV / 590 helpful votes

You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 583 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Proverbs 2:1-9:18 ESV / 583 helpful votes

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ...

Deuteronomy 5:1-33:29 ESV / 582 helpful votes

And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. The Lord spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, while I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the Lord. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said: ...

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 574 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 555 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Mark 1:3 ESV / 546 helpful votes

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’”

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 520 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 520 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 518 helpful votes

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

Psalm 1:1-2 ESV / 512 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 25:2 ESV / 501 helpful votes

O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me.

Psalm 16:2 ESV / 490 helpful votes

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”

Proverbs 22:3 ESV / 487 helpful votes

The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Psalm 139:3 ESV / 487 helpful votes

You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 483 helpful votes

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Psalm 18:2 ESV / 483 helpful votes

The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Psalm 37:23 ESV / 442 helpful votes

The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 417 helpful votes

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Isaiah 26:1-28:29 ESV / 415 helpful votes

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation that keeps faith may enter in. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust. ...

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 401 helpful votes

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 359 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 357 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 346 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 345 helpful votes

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 326 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 324 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Proverbs 2:8 ESV / 285 helpful votes

Guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.

Hebrews 12:13 ESV / 281 helpful votes

And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.

Job 23:11 ESV / 273 helpful votes

My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.

Proverbs 5:6 ESV / 259 helpful votes

She does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.

Proverbs 2:2 ESV / 257 helpful votes

Making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

Luke 1:2 ESV / 222 helpful votes

Just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,

James 1:5 ESV / 219 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Isaiah 26:7 ESV / 219 helpful votes

The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.

John 8:12 ESV / 218 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 217 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Proverbs 4:11 ESV / 215 helpful votes

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 207 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 205 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 196 helpful votes

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 192 helpful votes

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Romans 11:33 ESV / 178 helpful votes

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 176 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

1 John 1:9 ESV / 175 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Proverbs 4:1-27 ESV / 172 helpful votes

Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight, for I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching. When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live. Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. ...

John 14:23-24 ESV / 171 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father's who sent me.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 169 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 167 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 165 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Psalm 25:9 ESV / 161 helpful votes

He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 160 helpful votes

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Proverbs 5:1-23 ESV / 160 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; ...

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 159 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Proverbs 15:2 ESV / 155 helpful votes

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.

Joel 2:8 ESV / 153 helpful votes

They do not jostle one another; each marches in his path; they burst through the weapons and are not halted.

Proverbs 6:23 ESV / 151 helpful votes

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 150 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 148 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 147 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 147 helpful votes

Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 146 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Proverbs 22:1-26:28 ESV / 143 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...

Proverbs 10:1-17:28 ESV / 143 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. ...

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 143 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Proverbs 1:15 ESV / 139 helpful votes

My son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 136 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Proverbs 12:28 ESV / 135 helpful votes

In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.

Proverbs 2:6 ESV / 134 helpful votes

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

John 1:7 ESV / 128 helpful votes

He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.

Genesis 2:3 ESV / 121 helpful votes

So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

John 3:16 ESV / 109 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 106 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

John 10:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

Hosea 2:6 ESV / 73 helpful votes

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.

Isaiah 3:12 ESV / 58 helpful votes

My people—infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

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