Proverbs 2:8

God guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of His saints. It matters because it assures the faithful that God watches over their journey.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 23:3He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
• 1 Sam 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.
• John 10:28–29I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• Ps 145:20Yahweh preserves all those who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
• Ps 66:9who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.
• Ps 37:23–24A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
• Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
• Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
• 1 Pet 1:5who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Prov 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice;
• Deut 33:3Yes, he loves the people. All his saints are in your hand. They sat down at your feet. Each receives your words.
• Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
• Deut 33:26–29“There is no one like God, Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens for your help, in his excellency on the skies.
• Isa 49:9–10saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
• Ps 121:5–8Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
• Isa 35:9No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.
• Jer 32:40–41and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
• Ps 37:31The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.
• Prov 3:21–24My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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