The Relevance of the Gospel

Direction

 

Footnotes

1. Proverbs 3:6 Or will direct your paths

Psalm 32:8 ESV / 552 helpful votes 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Psalm 37:23 ESV / 370 helpful votes 

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

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 333 helpful votes 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 11:2 ESV / 242 helpful votes 

And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 212 helpful votes 

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Psalm 37:23-24 ESV / 165 helpful votes 

The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way; though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong, for the Lord upholds his hand.

Jeremiah 1:7-8 ESV / 149 helpful votes 

But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’; for to all to whom I send you, you shall go, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.”

Proverbs 16:1-2 ESV / 148 helpful votes 

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

Proverbs 16:9 ESV / 143 helpful votes 

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

Job 33:14-15 ESV / 136 helpful votes 

For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,

Isaiah 43:16-19 ESV / 127 helpful votes 

Thus says the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 48:17-18 ESV / 107 helpful votes 

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

Psalm 23:3 ESV / 107 helpful votes 

He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Psalm 94:12-14 ESV / 102 helpful votes 

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

John 6:35 ESV / 95 helpful votes 

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

Deuteronomy 1:32-33 ESV / 90 helpful votes 

Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the Lord your God, who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.

Isaiah 30:21 ESV / 89 helpful votes 

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 82 helpful votes 

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

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 71 helpful votes 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

John 5:30 ESV / 65 helpful votes 

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Psalm 90:12 ESV / 64 helpful votes 

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 62 helpful votes 

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.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 62 helpful votes 

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

John 15:1-5 ESV / 53 helpful votes 

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

James 1:5 ESV / 52 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.

Psalm 25:9 ESV / 52 helpful votes 

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

1 John 4:1-21 ESV / 49 helpful votes 

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. ...

John 16:13 ESV / 47 helpful votes 

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Isaiah 6:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes 

And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

Psalm 139:23-24 ESV / 45 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!

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 43 helpful votes 

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

1 Peter 4:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes 

Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Mark 8:25-26 ESV / 41 helpful votes 

Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”

Psalm 37:30-31 ESV / 40 helpful votes 

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. The law of his God is in his heart; his steps do not slip.

Proverbs 14:12 ESV / 39 helpful votes 

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

Job 33:12-25 ESV / 39 helpful votes 

“Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man. Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man's words’? For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds, then he opens the ears of men and terrifies them with warnings, ...

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 38 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,

Acts 18:4-11 ESV / 38 helpful votes 

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks. When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized. ...

Psalm 25:4 ESV / 38 helpful votes 

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

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 37 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.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 37 helpful votes 

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

Acts 18:9-12 ESV / 34 helpful votes 

And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.” And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal,

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes 

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Psalm 31:3 ESV / 34 helpful votes 

For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me;

Proverbs 5:6 ESV / 32 helpful votes 

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

Psalm 61:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes 

From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,

Psalm 32:8-9 ESV / 31 helpful votes 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.

Psalm 27:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes 

Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

Psalm 25:5 ESV / 31 helpful votes 

Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.

Isaiah 58:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes 

And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 30 helpful votes 

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 29 helpful votes 

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Psalm 5:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes 

Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.

Hebrews 10:19-20 ESV / 25 helpful votes 

Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,

Isaiah 48:17 ESV / 25 helpful votes 

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 25 helpful votes 

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

Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 25 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.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 24 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Corinthians 1:25 ESV / 24 helpful votes 

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 24 helpful votes 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes 

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 22 helpful votes 

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Job 29:21 ESV / 22 helpful votes 

“Men listened to me and waited and kept silence for my counsel.

John 14:6 ESV / 21 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.

Habakkuk 2:3 ESV / 21 helpful votes 

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

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

Acts 17:11 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Psalm 118:29 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes 

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:1 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes 

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes 

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

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes 

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.

Proverbs 11:14 ESV / 18 helpful votes 

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Psalm 143:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes 

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

James 3:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Matthew 7:7-11 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Daniel 2:23 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”

Genesis 12:1-7 ESV / 17 helpful votes 

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, ...

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Galatians 5:18 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

John 6:35-36 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

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

Psalm 16:7-8 ESV / 16 helpful votes 

I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Luke 19:1-10 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

He entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small of stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” ...

Proverbs 3:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes 

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Jeremiah 33:2-3 ESV / 14 helpful votes 

“Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it—the Lord is his name: Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Acts 8:26 ESV / 13 helpful votes 

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.

John 10:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Luke 24:1-53 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? ...

Luke 1:79 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Exodus 34:8-9 ESV / 12 helpful votes 

And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Revelation 7:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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